Word: 22nd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honors. Major General Vanier's family emigrated to New France from Normandy 300 years ago. Tall, mustached, old-worldly, he walks with a black walnut cane, a reminder of the leg he lost (and the D.S.O. he won) as a major of Quebec's famed Royal 22nd Regiment (the "Van Doos") at Cherisy in World War I. In Paris, where Vanier was Canada's admired postwar ambassador (1945-53), he is remembered as a sort of Canadian Charles de Gaulle (they are close friends...
...Finished." Clearly, Ike had been giving some deep thought to his role as the first President to be limited (by the 22nd Amendment) to two terms of office. And he seemed, in a way, to be trying to lay down a code of conduct for second-term Presidents who would follow him in office. "I'm not thinking so much of public images as I am the public good," he said in response to another question. "I call your attention again [to the fact] that I cannot be running for anything. I am finished with public life when...
Ratiocination. On the second day, the tide turned. As newsmen sneakily cribbed from one another at tables covered with green (baze? baize? beise?) cloth, the girls were toppled by persiflage, ephelis, additament, cacolet. In the 22nd round, 13-year-old Elaine Hassell of Dallas, the last girl survivor, fluffed on porphyry (she guessed porfiree). Three boys remained: Allan L. Kramer, 13, of Lake Worth, Fla.; Robert Crossley, 13, of Norristown, Pa.; Joel Montgomery, 12, of Denver. And down went Kramer in Round 24; after negotiating quidnunc, eclectic, and sarcophagus, he missed ratiocination. The mellifluous pronouncer ("I give full value...
...nation's first President barred by the U.S. Constitution (22nd Amendment) from seeking a third term, Dwight Eisenhower once feared that his lack of a political future might hurt his political present. It seemed all too likely that political opportunists of both parties would declare open season on an Eisenhower deprived of a chance to take his program and his popularity to the polls again. But by last week the President had just about decided that his unique lame-duck position was one of strength, not of weakness...
While the bewildered Shenefield shambled back to the mound after watching the 22nd run tallied, Longwood speedster Fred Byron raced to the plate with the record-breaking 23rd score...