Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center column, moving in past Kuntilla, drew blood only a few miles inside Sinai. It encountered Egyptian armor, mostly Soviet T-34 tanks. After 16 hours, it scattered the defenders...
President Eisenhower holds a slight edge over Adlai Stevenson but a strong showing by Stevenson in Boston coupled with small gains in the west of the state might be enough to swing the 16 electoral votes into the Democratic column...
...been flatly contradicted by the White House-and by the facts. Once President Truman publicly called him an "s.o.b."* Last week Columnist Pearson, who has less respect for facts than Walter Winchell, set a record even for him; he provoked a bristling White House denial a day before his column saw print. Burden of the column: "It will be vigorously denied," but President Eisenhower "apparently suffered a mild relapse" on his way to the Minneapolis airport during his mid-October Western campaign trip...
Pearson's column went out as usual to his 650 papers three days before publication date, which was the very day of Ike's long-promised "head-to-toe" physical examination at Walter Reed Hospital. Soon Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's phone began jangling with queries from editors. One of them supplied him with the full Pearson text. When he saw it, Hagerty called a press conference and spent 45 angry minutes taking apart "the most amazing document of falsehood that I have ever''seen." To any of some 80 newsmen who covered...
Pearson would not back down. Said he: "My story was carefully checked, and I believe it to be true." While running a story on Hagerty's press conference, many of Pearson's regular outlets pointedly omitted his offending column. Typical explanation (by New York's Daily Mirror): "The facts did not substantiate" what Pearson wrote. The Portland Oregon Journal felt "impelled" to explain that Pearson's report was "utterly false" and "an unconscionable smear...