Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite interested in the results of the survey of college professors who read TIME [July 23]. I would be even more interested to learn how many died-in-the-wool Democrats like me read TIME each week, writhe in silent anger, vow to cancel their subscriptions, and then camp by the mailbox waiting for the next issue...
...have to be boss." He was backed to the hilt by wispy, sick-looking Hubert Smith (no relation), chief warden at Rock Quarry since 1951. Declared the warden: "This leg-breaking was planned by these men to get public sympathy to bring pressure on the state to abolish this camp...
...campaign for him in 1954), other Southerners recall vividly-and bitterly-his strident civil-rights performance at the 1948 convention. Humphrey's charter membership in Americans for Democratic Action is today something less than a national political asset. Nonetheless, longtime Stevensonian Humphrey, 45, ranks high in the Stevenson camp...
...sunny afternoon last week Besley sat down at his favorite window, focused his glasses on the lake. He watched a launch cut through the water, the frolicking bathers on the beach. Shifting his gaze inland he saw a woman sitting on a camp chair. She was reading a book. Walking slowly up from behind her, a white shirt in his hand, was a tanned, muscular, bare-chested man. Curious, Besley watched as the man walked along the edge of a thicket, suddenly dropped to his hands and knees and crawled into the bushes...
...Another index of discipline: of Platoon 71's 68 survivors, 63 were sent from Camp Lejeune to Parris Island for possible use as witnesses in the court-martial. Of these, two promptly went over the hill. Of the five not at Parris Island, one is in the hospital, one is AWOL, one has deserted, one is being held for commanding officer's punishment, one is in the brig...