Word: eve
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Celebrated on New Year's Eve the seventh birthday of his granddaughter Susan, second girl of son and current junior presidential aide Major John. Ike's highlight: helping apple-of-eye grandson David, 10, pick out a $2 cloisonne necklace, a $1 box of stationery, a $1 spelling game for sister Susan. "Well," muttered Ike after peeling the bills out of his pocket, "we did the best we could...
Batista's end came on New Year's Eve. As he and his fellow crooks rode in a line of black Cadillacs to the army's Camp Columbia, outside Havana, for the usual New Year's Eve dinner, they did not smile. They knew that the jig, as well as the year, was up. "For the salvation of the republic," announced General Eulogio Cantillo at the end of a gloomy meal, "the military forces have decided that it is necessary for General Batista to withdraw from power...
Spirits were abroad on New Year's Eve along the beaches around Rio de Janeiro. The five-mile crescent of Copacabana and the other Rio beaches blazed with the ritual candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil's fastest-growing cult: "spiritism." Altars were set up everywhere in the sand, heaped with fetishes and food offerings, bottles of beer and the rotgut alcohol known as cachaça. Around the altars, while drums pounded faster and faster, men, women and children danced and shouted, stomped and babbled. Yemanjá, goddess of the sea, was the special object...
...vote, taken in a secret session on the eve of the new session of Congress, was 74 for Halleck and 70 for the Massachusetts congressman who has been the House GOP leader for 20 years...
Star defensemen Bill Sullivan, leading player on the Tufts squad, was involved in an automobile accident New Year's Eve and will be unable to play this afternoon. "We're back where we started from due to Sullivan's injury," Arthur said. He will start Dave Fox and Tommy Foster on defense, while Paul Farrell, leading point producer for the Jumbos, will open at left wing. Bill Ziter centers the Tufts first line, with George Lloyd at right wing. Kenny Tondreau will guard the nets...