Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticism at home last week. At an emergency session of Parliament, the strongly pro-British Tory Party hotly assailed the government for its refusal to back the British-French attack on Egypt and for siding with the U.S. in bringing about a ceasefire. Canada had acted as "a chore boy for the U.S.," charged the Tories, and had "encouraged our enemies and embarrassed our friends...
...heat, External Affairs Secretary Lester Pearson pointed out that Britain had failed to advise Canada of its Middle East plans. Lacking prior consultation, Canada went to the U.N. and voted independently. "If a resolution is right, we vote for it," Pearson said. "It is bad to be a chore boy for the United States. It is equally bad to be a colonial chore boy, running around shouting 'Ready, aye, ready...
...toughest Olympic test of all had been all but conceded to U.C.L.A.'s World Record Holder Rafer Johnson. The U.S. Navy's and Indiana U.'s Milt Campbell, runner-up to 1952 Champion Bob Mathias at Helsinki, and an even huskier broth of a boy four years later, had other ideas. "The good Lord," said Campbell, had told him to try the decathlon rather than the hurdles, and the young (23) Negro poured it on in almost every event. Only a surprisingly poor showing in the pole vault (11 ft. 1¾ in.) kept Campbell from breaking...
...week long, Moore had talked like a goateed tiger. He was fighting for pay, he reminded everyone in earshot, when this untutored upstart Patterson was still in short pants. Moore was "not without pity" for the kid, but they had sent a boy on a man's errand...
...Scott again stars; as the beautiful incestuous brother he is a magic boy. His voice is silvery. His face is as striking as his all white costume. As the girl's husband, struggling to find meaning or justice in a frustrating world, David Lange is rather eloquent. David Cupp's rigid expressions are just right for the Spanish nobleman father, and Phyllis Ferguson, as the mother, conveys sorrow and resentment in a visually excellent manner. Lee Jeffries, as a witch-like partial leader of the chorus and voice of conscience, grinds out her evil incantations with great effect, even...