Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...causes for general Republican disaster, none was more sharply pinpointed by pundits and editorial writers (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) than presidential leadership. At a strictly political level, President Eisenhower showed little interest in his party. Last week even loyal Eisenhower-Republican Senator Cliff Case of New Jersey was moved to comment on Ike's lack of "love of politics and the political game." Said Utah's G.O.P. National Committeeman Jerry Jones, himself a middle-road Republican: "We have no political leadership. Ike, with his aloofness from politics-his attitude of being above it all-has made us all just...
...cliff dwellers still roll out their gaily colored futons (quilts) at night, and drape them over balcony railings to air during the day. But the traditional toko-noma, the alcove in which the family displayed its scrolls and flower arrangements, has given way to built-in cupboards. Central heating has taken the place of the hibachi (brazier) and of the kotatsu, the hole in the floor filled with hot coals to keep the family feet warm...
...visible farm prosperity, Kansas has five Republican Representatives and one Democratic. In 1956, the six winners each got 55% or less of the vote-and on that basis it is conceivable that all six could switch this time. Against the lone Democratic incumbent, Floyd Breeding, Republicans have put up Cliff Hope Jr., son of vastly popular, Benson-needling Cliff Hope Sr., who retired from the House before the 1956 elections. But young Cliff has not yet shown his father's vote-getting abilities and is at best...
Mathias stays on the island for three days, and during that time a 13-year-old girl is found bruised and dead at the foot of a seaside cliff. All the evidence points to Mathias, but always there seems the faint chance that his part in the crime is merely a psychopath's figment...
...YORK--Crafty Warren Spahn tossed a two-hitter and left the New York Yankees cliff-hanging by their fingernails Sunday, with his Milwaukee Braves needing only one more victory to clinch their second straight World Series...