Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charming Billo had slathers of luck. It had never deserted him in the years in which he lifted himself from stoker to hod carrier to bartender to cop to D.A. to brigadier general in the U.S. Army to mayor. It did not desert him when the roof began falling in on him at city hall. Democratic bosses figured a special city election in 1950 would be just the thing to rouse the faithful and help put a Democrat in the governor's chair in Albany. Harry Truman swallowed hard, but in the hope (later proved false) of carrying...
Romantic Man dreams of being marooned on a desert island with one ideal woman. Romantic Woman dreams of being marooned with a wide choice of men. Last week a comely 32-year-old Okinawa-born widow named Kazuko Higa arrived in Tokyo for a burlesque tour, during which she planned to tell Japanese audiences what it was like to be marooned alone for five years with 31 men. It was not, she implied, all that it might...
...annual Pan American border-to-border road race. In addition to the 37 sport-car drivers entered, 64 more were ready to try their luck in a separate division for modified U.S. stock cars. Ahead of the racers lay 1,946 miles of torturous mountain roads and sun-baked desert in the "run for the river," the finish at the Rio Grande city of Juarez, across the U.S. border from El Paso...
...Decks" in the Desert. Last week, as always, stiff-starched Marines (who are as thoroughly drilled in neatness, military niceties and pride in their gaudy uniforms as in the techniques of battle) stood guard duty at legations, embassies, naval yards, naval air stations, naval storage depots in the U.S. and abroad, played their ancient role as soldiers aboard battleships, cruisers and carriers of the U.S. fleets...
Almost all the applications are for areas in the Sechura desert, just south of the long-established north coast field at Talara (output: 33,000 bbls. a day). International Petroleum, a Canadian subsidiary of Standard Oil (N.J.) which operates Talara, is a major Sechura bidder. Other foreign applicants: Peruvian Gulf, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corp.; Richmond Petroleum, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California; Conorada, jointly owned by Continental Oil, Ohio Oil and Amerada Petroleum Corp., principal wildcatter in North Dakota's new and gushing Williston Basin. All of these except Peruvian Gulf have asked for both exploration...