Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harriers to a near-perfect 15-49 win, registering his first victory of the season in a time of 20:14 minutes. Five other Crimson runners followed him across the finish line within a minute, with Emil San Soucie taking second in 20:16. Hal Gerry finished third and Dan French, Al Wills, and Bill Engs placed fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively...
...future fire-eating Secretary in the youngster who shunned fights, delivered lectures on God to his playfellows and ran prayer meetings in the family stable in Steubenville, Ohio. But as a self-made lawyer, Stanton fought cases as he was later to fight the war: to win. When Congressman Dan Sickles killed his wife's lover on a Washington street, Stanton got him acquitted on grounds never before used in a U.S. trial-temporary insanity.-In another case, he brusquely superseded an older lawyer assigned to the case and made the closing argument himself. The older lawyer...
...gloom, I had been standing about a pace from the President, almost shouting in his face. Colorado Governor Dan Thornton, who was playing with the President that day, found Granby for me while the President and I chatted. Or, rather, the President talked and I gulped, trying to think of just how you go about apologizing for shouting in the President's face. The President allowed that it was great weather, that the course was in fine shape and that his game was going pretty well ('I got a birdie on the first hole this morning...
...American Magazine, Scott named to his "fudocracy": in the Senate, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, 43, Nevada's George W. Malone, 63, Idaho's Herman Welker, 46; and in the House, Illinois' Noah Mason, 71, Michigan's Clare Hoffman, 77, and New York's Dan Reed...
...protect the President from some bad advice that would have led him down the path blazed by New Deal Democrats." Malone advised Scott to "settle down"; Mason said he opposed Eisenhower's program only "where I thought it was wrong." And from his home in Dunkirk. N.Y., old Dan Reed, who lost a slugging match to the President on excess profits taxes in July, said of his relations with Ike, "We are very close friends." Of Scott's grumble, Reed chuckled: "Well. Hughy'll say darn near anything for publicity...