Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its perilous beginnings, the Khrushchev visit had turned out substantially to the U.S.'s advantage. In his second week he had won grudging respect for his energy and his drive, if not for his heavyhanded, oft-reiterated message...
...Summit v. the Schools. In Lancashire, the closing of 72 cotton mills in five constituencies threatened to drive thousands of touchy, often Tory mill hands into the arms of Labor. In south-coast Devonport, audiences listened stonily to speeches about the summit and demanded new schools. Among the coalpits of the Tyne, in Scotland and in the Yorkshire foundry towns, pockets of unemployment threatened at least a dozen government seats. And both sides fretted over the effect of mass transfers of traditionally Labor voters from city slums to new outlying housing developments...
...King Hussein has been half-reconciled to Nasser by Kassem's involvement with the Communists, the state radio broadcast an appeal to all Arabs to "protect Iraq from Communist gangs." Even some erstwhile Kassem defenders turned hostile: in Lebanon a crowd of 3,000 battled police in a drive to overrun the Iraqi embassy, and Beirut's Le Soir, long friendly to the Baghdad regime, fulminated, "Dipped in blood to the roots of their hair, will the masters of Baghdad never tire of assassinating people...
...early scenes that no makeup artist can change 33-year-old Larry (Flower Drum Song) Blyden into the angular, ferret-faced, 17-year-old copy boy he is in the novel's opening chapters; Blyden's lines still snarl with Sammy's hungry, terrifying drive. Nor does it matter very much that the gutter gags had to be cleaned up, that the Jewish humor is sacrificed to the self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although the word is taboo, the poor exploited slob who ghosted...
...Other games: Starting a drive for a national championship, the mighty Iowa Hawkeyes spotted California an early touchdown, then came back to win 42-12. Beefy Ohio State had to struggle mightily to edge upstart Duke, 14-13. Once-great Michigan State, still reeling from last season's debacle (three wins, five defeats), got off on the wrong foot by losing 9-7 to Texas A. & M. Outweighed 20 Ibs. a man, stubborn Tennessee upset Auburn, 3-0, to snap major college football's longest unbeaten string at 24 games...