Word: drift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author W. A. (Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg magnifies Sumter's importance for dramatic effect, tending to cast it as an actual cause of the Civil War instead of the incident that set off a conflict long inevitable. Nonetheless, in the policies of drift and duplicity that led to Edmund Ruffin's pulling the lanyard, and in the strains it placed on the minds and loyalties of the men involved, Sumter can serve as a microcosm for the Civil...
...marriage is consummated, not with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...
...Doubt & Drift. The question arose in 1881 when James Garfield was shot in the back by a deranged lawyer in the Washington railroad terminal and lay disabled for 80 days. During that time he performed only one official act, signing an extradition paper. The Cabinet tried to cope with such problems as post-office fraud scandals and sagging foreign relations, considered urging Vice President Chester Alan Arthur to take over the functions and authority of the President during his disability, but feared the legal implications. The Government drifted until Garfield died...
Deer prospects are as good or better in Massachusetts than last year. There is also an exceptionally large deer population in Vermont this year; some may drift south. The archery season for deer lasts from Nov. 21 until Nov. 27; a combined archery and shotgun deer season lasts from Dec. 2 to Dec. 7. It is illegal to hunt deer with a rifle in Massachusetts...
...months, Indonesia's boldest and best-known newspaper editor, Indonesia Raya's Mochtar Lubis, 35, has been under house arrest for speaking up against President Sukarno's drift toward Communism. Last week Sukarno's government took another step toward its goal of "guided democracy." On pain of suspension, other Djakarta newspapers and magazines were warned not even to mention Editor Lubis' name...