Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulled out all the old crowd-pleasers that were growing a bit jaded back home. He called the world press coverage of the executions "the most criminal, vile and cowardly campaign ever conducted against any people." At the Havana Hilton, Floor 23 emptied, the elevators and switchboards began running smoothly again. For a few hours there was peace in Cuba...
...from "buying" any Latin American, neglects its obligations to its neighbors. Saying so, diplomatically but succinctly, to Congress and the press was his major mission as he visited the U.S. And even as he served as his people's advocate, his government had to fight back his misguided opponents at home...
...permission to sell or lease a featherbedded, government-owned meatpacking plant. Workers at the plant listened to a harangue by a top Peronista, then chained the gate and barricaded themselves in. Frondizi did not hesitate. Using a Sherman tank as a battering ram, his troops marched in and took back the plant. Sixty-two Peronista-dominated unions went out on a protest strike, followed by 19 Communist-dominated unions and 32 independent unions...
...teach evolution as a theory, if it were "made clear that the only true account of Creation is the Biblical account." Texts used in Missouri high schools and colleges explain that life evolved from one-celled organisms, and they will most likely continue to do so. Missouri's back-country-dominated house of representatives may pass Bruffett's bill, but it stands virtually no chance of survival in the more sophisticated senate. Said a state school official wearily: "If a child has had the home and church training he should have had, a parent would not have...
...hefty Negro bus driver, Thomas grew up in Boston, and he is still growing. He weighs 185 Ibs. now, should get up to 215 in five years. Key to the Thomas style is the powerful spring in his left heel, developed by hours of lying on his back and hoisting 350-lb. weights with his legs. Approaching the bar from the left at a 37° angle, he takes seven progressively longer strides -then brakes hard on his left heel. He springs off the heel, kicks mightily with the right foot that sucks him into the air and belly-rolls...