Word: endings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near week's end, Rockefeller aides let it be known that Rocky had not said it all at Puerto Rico; that the Governor well realized that there is only one true and final poll on the presidency: the general election. Nelson Rockefeller prepared to make his position clearer...
Bull Halsey became a great commander. Off Guadalcanal he won a campaign so tight that at the end of it, he was down to "2,300 gallons of aviation gasoline and three or four planes fit to fight." From the South China Sea to Formosa he improvised great sea-air sweeps that cost the Japanese "so many ships that I cannot count them." As commander of the big Third Fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, he was the scourge of the Japanese Navy. Toward the end of the war, Halsey took task forces of battleships as well as carriers...
Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere. A well-balanced account of the man whom Reporter Rovere regards as the Dead End kid of U.S. politics...
While the city fathers fiddled, the virus spread. Kansas City had 109 cases of polio (nearly half of them paralytic) by week's end, with no sign that the epidemic was abating...
Wild Strawberries (Swedish). In his 18th film, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman examines one day in the life of a very old, eminent doctor, employing the language of dream and symbol to achieve a moving end...