Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Tricolor was hauled down and handed to a silently weeping colonel. Next day, in well-ordered triumph the first of 30,000 helmeted, green-clad troops of the Communist Viet Minh rolled into the city in Russian Molotov trucks, Russian command cars and jeeps, on bicycles and afoot. Thus IndoChina's ancient capital (pop. 400,000) passed into Communist hands, in starkly simple faithfulness to the Geneva agreement which turned half of Indo-China over to Red rule...
Principal Green's words apparently had their effect at Raymond. More important, they seemed to set the tone for the entire capital. Some 3,000 Negroes were transferred to white schools last week, and plans were afoot to desegregate the whole school system by next year. By week's end, hardly a protest had been heard. Reported Assistant Superintendent Norman J. Nelson: "We don't know of one single thing untoward happening...
When the Senate met for its third day of debate on Ralph Flanders' motion to censure* McCarthy, Joe's enemies were well aware that a move was afoot to send the motion to committee. Arkansas' Democratic J. William Fulbright had tried to buttress Flanders' generalized motion with a specific six-count amendment, which included the old charge that Joe had shaken down Lustron Corp. to collect a $10,000 fee for writing a housing booklet. Republican Leader William Knowland moved to refer the censure motion to a select committee of three Republicans and three Democrats...
...Washington, observers agree that this Congress will cut excise taxes a billion dollars, and that the Administration will accept the cut, despite its official disapproval. Also, there is a powerful move afoot to increase personal exemptions. All year long Internal Revenue offices receive jubilant announcements of births, some printed on mock income-tax forms. In Newark, N.J. last week, an attractive mother of four finished checking the family tax form with a revenue agent, then asked and was told how much less she would have to pay if she had one more dependent. Mused mother: "I was just wondering whether...
...sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber of Commerce, they flew directly to Parana's coffee-raising center, 200 miles inland from Sao Paulo. Full of questions about fertilizers, wages, harvesting methods and crop yields, they covered 150 miles of frost-burned coffee-land by motorcade and afoot. Trudging down rows of tree skeletons, Mrs. Chapman said: "This is very distressing-worse than we had imagined...