Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Foster Dulles, foreign policy; Illinois Representative Leslie Arends, Kansas Representative Clifford Hope and Milton Eisenhower, farm policy; Idaho Governor Leonard Jordan, development of resources; a delegation of Illinois Republicans headed by former Senator C. Wayland Brooks, to whom Ike demonstrated, fists clenched over the luncheon table, how hard he intends to fight in November...
...Korea, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., 40, son of the late General "Vinegar Joe," took over as commander of the 23rd Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division. In Korea, Captain Clifford D. Jolley, 31, of Salt Lake City, shot down his fifth enemy plane to become America's 18th jet ace of the war. In Tokyo, the Army announced that Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner, who restored order to the rebellious prisoner-of-war camp on Koje Islands, had been promoted to the rank of major general. In Washington, the Marine Corps announced that Colonel Katherine A. Towle...
...police never tracked down the murderer. Mdhlani kept his son's secret, after first pledging him to mend his evil ways. Soon Clifford was back to his old tricks: armed with three revolvers he terrorized the good people of the villages...
...bloody 1906 uprising of the conquered Zulus, a 26-year-old Zulu warrior named Mdhlani Ngcobo remained loyal to the whites and was rewarded by being made head man of his village. Mdhlani married, prospered, begat children, grew old, respected and respectable. But one son, Clifford, became a thief and a gangster. Three years ago, son Clifford, all his bravado gone, crept into his father's hut. He whispered that he had murdered a white Durban policeman, and blubbered: "They will hang...
...Mdhlani went out alone into the veld, stayed there three days and three nights, praying to God for guidance. When he returned on the third night, he went straight to Clifford's hut, took one of Clifford's three pistols and killed his sleeping son. Then he surrendered to the police. In Durban police court, he said: "I shot my son because he killed a white man. Do what you will." Mdhlani was sentenced to hang...