Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refusal to accept Big Bill's kindness. They prefer going it alone, since they think that Knowland's unpopular right-to-work program is hurting party chances, and furthermore, that Nominee Knowland cannot beat Democratic Nominee Pat Brown, who led him by 606,000 votes in the cross-filed primary votes. Cf Los Angeles Lawyer Ed Shattuck, Knowland's campaign manager and Republican national committeeman, quit the Knowland campaign. Shattuck was criticized because he ran an ineffectual organization and, as a committeeman, should have been representing the whole party instead of one candidate-but mostly because...
...trying week. Rainier kept stonily silent in his pink palace. After all, Monaco was still Monaco, and royalty had other duties to perform. For one thing, there was the gala $23-a-plate dinner and world film premiere of Kings Go Forth for the benefit of the Monegasque Red Cross. Everyone from Gina Lollobrigida to Frank Sinatra. Noel Coward and Bette Davis was there. At the last moment, however, two of the star attractions, those old-shoe American tourists. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo., sent word that they could not make...
...from being European stooges, some of the Africans emerged from hard cross-examination (as the judge remarked at the end of the trial) as simple, frank and engaging men. Last week the court declared Mboya & Co. guilty of criminal libel, slapped each with a token ?75 fine, not enough to make martyrs of them. Outside the courthouse, where thousands of Bwana Tom's followers had demonstrated only a few days before, one native forlornly waved a placard saying EIGHT MILLION AFRICANS ON TRIAL, for the benefit of the small, halfhearted crowd-and the Nairobi police phlegmatically waited to quell...
...rocket for the first probe will be aimed about 40° ahead of the moon, like a hunter leading a duck. Its initial speed of 23,827 m.p.h. will bring it to the moon's vicinity in a little more than three days. If aimed correctly, it will cross the moon's orbit slightly ahead of the moon, moving comparatively slowly. In this region the moon's gravitational field is dominant. It will pull the probe around the moon and sling it back toward earth in a lopsided figure eight...
...groped "in the midnight of priestly superstition," and Arabs "carried passengers in their hair." Beneath the invective lurked a cultural inferiority complex and a desperate anxiety not to be taken in. Twain regarded religious relics and purported miracles as "frauds" and "swindles": "I find a piece of the true cross in every old church I go into, and some of the nails that held it together." The Sea of Galilee was "this puddle," and no match for Lake Tahoe. Of the Hellespont, Twain wrote: "I don't think much of Leander, now, who swam the Hellespont...