Word: butts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Career Diplomat Joseph C. Satterthwaite, chief of the State Department's African Desk. His reason was impeccable: the State Department freely helps students from independent new nations, but in colonial or trust territories, the department deals directly with the governing power: in short, State tries not to butt in too much in the British territory. A New York Negro named Frank Montero, president of the student foundation, wrote to Nixon, recalling his interest in Africa and asking for his help. Nixon turned Montero's request over to Satterthwaite, who promptly rejected it for the third time...
Although Fairchild is chairman of all his companies, he prefers his role of technical adviser. "If things are going well," he says, "I do not butt in. My forte is not management. But when things don't go well, I butt in." Fairchild Camera was showing few signs of growth in 1957 when Fairchild himself stepped in to run the company, "to the consternation of a good many people." But Fairchild brought in hard-driving President John Carter, 40 (with the lure of an option deal that could net him, at current prices, about $8,000,000), now gives...
Execution at 10. With a rifle butt, the militia commander prodded old Wong until he was satisfied that Wong really could not move. Then, on command, one soldier stepped forward, shot Wong through the head. As Kou and the other commune workers watched, the soldiers trussed Wong's wrists and ankles and slung him over a bamboo pole like a freshly slaughtered hog. All of a sudden, the workers began to chant: "We won't work! We won't work! We won't work...