Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state's senior Senator (and ranking minority member of Joe McCarthy's Senate subcommittee), learned that he had a fight on his hands in trying to get his party's endorsement for a third term in Washington. His opponent in the Democratic primary: aggressive, Fair-Dealing Sidney Sanders McMath, 41, who has been threatening to run against McClellan since the latter openly supported Governor Francis Cherry against McMath in 1950. In that primary, McMath was beaten in his try for a third term as Arkansas' governor...
...young British officers and Negro soldiers were spoiling for a fight. They had seen too many mutilated corpses to have faith in the surrender plan, and since Gatamuki was camped illegally, he was technically still fair game. During the night, the African riflemen were moved into position. In the morning, they opened fire with Sten guns, mortars and grenades. The Mau Mau fought back, but it was all over in a matter of minutes. Most of the Mau Mau fled, but behind them they left 25 dead, many wounded and General Gatamuki a prisoner. Protested Gatamuki: "We were...
...received them, he accepted the resignations of seven Cabinet ministers and two under secretaries. Then he replaced the departing nine with relatively obscure men from the ranks of the Greek Rally, Papagos' coalition party. The move, said 70-year-old Premier Papagos, was designed to give others a fair chance to learn the complicated machinery of government...
...Hell," he rumbled, "it's no crime to overthrow a government in a fair fight, but murder is something else...
...Tractor Co. Eberhard joined Holt Manufacturing Co. (later merged into Caterpillar) at 16 as a draftsman, helped develop the Army's self-propelled guns, became Caterpillar's chief engineer. He takes over from Louis B. Neumiller, who was named board chairman upon the retirement of Harry H. Fair, prime mover in Caterpillar's formation...