Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best indication of how little trouble we had was the total car-repair bill for the trip through Central America and back: it came to just...
...Able, a round-eyed monkey and one of the world's first two mammals to go into space and back. See SCIENCE...
...gurgles can be freely translated as: "I do not seek public office, but if in their wisdom the people see fit to elect me, then . . ." Rensselaer (pop. 5,500) is Halleck's boyhood town, a farming village in the northwest part of the state that inspired the song Back Home Again in Indiana. The seat of table-flat Jasper County, Rensselaer is as Republican as Vermont and twice as tough. Charlie's father. Lawyer Abraham Halleck * was a two-term Republican state senator who preached Republicanism as gospel. But if his party faith is a legacy from Father...
Frequently the authors hold up a little flag bearing the legend: "See, we can underestimate dangers and be optimistic, too." But recurrently they hark back to a theme which Douglass Cater recorded as part of a 1946 address by Joseph Alsop to the Signet Society. At that time, "the older member of the partnership" as he styles himself, compared the nations of the West to Leonidas' troops at Thermopylae and suggested that they "comb their golden hair in the sunlight and prepare to die bravely." A little bit of this sort of Everett Dirksen brand eloquence goes an awfully long...
...instead of taking the easy way out by disregarding its obligations towards some of the less prominent sports I propose that the University authorities take a step back and carefully evaluate the general running of buildings and grounds. I think that the results may prove interesting...