Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the tour ends, Knowland may announce formally that he is a candidate for governor. Under California's cross-filing law, he would try for both the Republican and the Democratic nominations in next June's primaries. Last week, as he was only beginning his road work, Unannounced Candidate Knowland-in the judgment of both pollsters and pundits-was running ahead of Goodie Knight...
...Cross Purposes. Unsure of the economic future, the Bank of Canada and the federal government seemed to be working at cross purposes. The bank, striving mightily to control inflation by classical methods, put a squeeze on the money supply that drove the commercial banks' prime interest rate to 5¼% (v. 4½% in New York). But the newly elected Tory government, worried about sagging housebuilding and rising unemployment, poured $150 million into new residential mortgage loans, hoped that the resulting construction would help keep unemployment next winter from exceeding the postwar high of 400,000 reached in March...
...speed of her own serves, only to make deadly double faults. Taking her time, getting more depth on her shots as her opposition faded, Althea had things all her own way. She hardly drew a hurried breath as she won, 6-3, 6-2. The first Negro to cross the tennis color line was the first lady of tennis...
...work up against the wall. Then, glaring like a buc caneer about to board ship, he kicked at the debris of brushes, tubes and bottles, plunged one brush into a bowl of white paint, grasped a second brush in his teeth, and rushed at the canvas. A white cross with red outline appeared on one side, a yellow squiggle on the other...
...would go to the police pension fund. Promised Gordon: "Six months didn't make me a veteran copper. But I've been one long enough to know I'm not going to snitch on any of them. I'm going to cross up dates and places whenever true identities might hurt somebody. I'm going to tell all the story. But I'm not going to make a spy's report...