Word: alf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done it under almost impossible circumstances. He took over the leadership job after the worst Republican defeat since the sunflower campaign of Kansas' Alf Landon went to seed in 1936. Dwight Eisenhower, barred from seeking a third term, looked like lame-duck soup to the lopsided Democratic majority in Congress. House and Senate Republicans were fighting among themselves, seemed incapable of forming a line of defense against the war-dancing Democrats...
More than half a century ago Rudyard Kipling advised the world to walk wide of the Widow at Windsor (for '"alf o' creation she owns"). Now British Satirist Angus Wilson offers a look at the other side of the Victorian coin-a blowsy Widow Britannia, landed tails down on the wet asphalt of the Welfare State...
Hard on their white heels was a fine new convertible, "Courtesy of Alf's Auto's--Roxville," in whose back seat had collapsed a member of the marching band. Spotting the opening in the last row of the band, one South Boston roue, an old hand at parades, moved swiftly into the position, calling the order to "close ranks." But soon the band had passed, and the crowd pressed forward eagerly to give its first hurrah as a black Cadillac, outfitted liberally with tattered green bunting, crawled past. Inside, a well fed figure, moving uneasily in its rich clothes, smiled...
...called for national unity. Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen so many crises in the past ten years that people find themselves under the spell of the old fable, where the boy cried 'Wolf! Wolf!' too often. But this...
...inning later, Terrier pitcher Alf Kearns, who had control problems in the early frames, hit Stu Forbes with a pitch. Cook advanced him with a bunt single, and after a sacrifice both of them scored on Forbush's second safety...