Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been laid and workmen were still installing telephones. But even in the chaos of moving day, Room 832 was as busy as an anthill. Its mission was supposed to be a secret, but nearly everybody in Washington knew that staffers of the new Nixon Club were beaver-busy organizing a presidential campaign under the benign and smoothly efficient direction of the most successful Republican political cam paign manager in U.S. history-Leonard Hall of Oyster...
While Author Kieran easily makes his point that nature endures all things, even concrete and steel, he also chronicles the species that have been pushed beyond the city limits-the oyster, the deer, the bobcat and beaver. Among the latest to leave is snowy-thatched, Latin-quoting John Kieran himself. The story on nature in New York is complete and compelling, but the story was filed from Rockport, Mass. His ancient habitat, a rambling Riverdale house where once a flying squirrel was a steady customer at a bird-feeding station, is now a stretch of concrete in the Henry Hudson...
Last week, as college football began across the nation, Coach Graham sent his lightweight Coast Guard team against the hard-nosed recruits of Geneva College (enrollment: 900) in Beaver Falls, Pa. It was no fun-especially for Otto Graham. Hands jammed deep into his pockets, chomping gum furiously, he writhed on the sidelines as Geneva toyed with his cadets. He bellowed frantic warnings ("Pass! It's a pass!"), once barked at officials ("Watch those off sides...
...pattern of flight at Xieng Kho was repeated all along the river. A single-engine Beaver plane loaded with grenades, small arms and munitions, which was squared off to land at the weedy Muong Het airstrip, was met by machine-gun fire, barely got back to report that Muong Het had also fallen. An entire royal Laotian battalion of some 700 men, plus 400 home guards, had been cut to pieces...
...held him for 24 hours. Fatherly General Abboud, after hearing the two soldiers' complaints, dismissed his No. 2 man and appointed both Shennan and Moheiddin to places on the ruling Supreme Military Council. They did good jobs: Moheiddin as Minister of Communications; taut, lithe, Eager Beaver Shennan as Minister of Local Government. But their ambitions went farther...