Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening day, Texas' Tom Connally, dressed in a rumpled linen suit, took the floor to begin the case for the North Atlantic Treaty. With no galleries to play to -in the old semicircular chamber where the Monroe Doctrine was first pronounced 126 years ago-Tom Connally went right to the point...
Recruit working salesmen from such down-to-earth American manufacturers as Fuller Brush . . . Turn these salesmen loose in Germany and let them begin to export American products and American ideas. It is this sort of a blood transfusion Germany needs...
When the brood cows begin dropping their calves, vaqueros carefully note the mother's number-branded in foot-high figures on her side-for entry in the register. Then the calf, itself numbered and registered, is turned loose to roam. At the age of 18 months, fighting bulls are rounded up for the all-important tienta. It is the only trial they get before entering a ring. If they got any more, the bulls, diabolically quick to learn, would have a fatal advantage over a bullfighter. Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than...
Nunn Ballew, a poor farmer from the hills of Kentucky, worked in the coal mines until he had saved enough money to buy 200 run-down acres of what had once been the fine land of his ancestors. But before he could begin building the place up, he felt bound to scrap his ambition. King Devil, a big red fox which haunted the countryside, had run his favorite hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock...
...unrumpled Sigmund Engel, 73, in a Chicago police station. Engel, she charged, had charmed her out of $8,700. That, Engel modestly admitted, was nothing. In 50 years of polished wooing, he figured he had extracted "millions-maybe $5 or $6 million" from gullible women. Police couldn't begin to list all the women he had taken to wife, but back in 1927, the dossier showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional secrets of the widow racket. Among them: always be a gentleman-subordinate sex; send red roses...