Word: fed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charge It. After that the Russian treatment of the nine men got better. They were flown to Baku, were interrogated frequently (the Air Force would not let the airmen disclose the Russian questions), were fed four times a day before their release ten days later. But when the Air Force men's reports were in, the State Department fired off a protest against 1) the MIG attack upon an unarmed U.S. transport, 2) the brutal mistreatment of the airmen by the Armenian peasants. Said State: "To suggest that a slow, four-engine propeller-type unarmed aircraft would attempt...
Yarborough's campaign kitty. Blakley charged, is being fed by Eastern organized labor. He dared Liberal Yarborough, who straddles the race issue, to get off the fence. "I challenge him," said Blakley in a resonant drawl, "to deny that funds for his past and present campaigns come from the same source as the funds which financed the attack on our public school system by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Impulsively he let five of them go, then three, and early this week five more. He fed and housed the others well, and drafted an apology to their "parents, wives and sweethearts." The kidnaped men were equally gallant. "A swell guy, that Raúl Castro," said Edward Cannon, a builder from Cornwall, Ont., as he stepped off a helicopter at the base upon being freed. "We had good food and plenty of it, and beds with clean sheets," chimed in Henry Salmonson of Portland...
...sprouted hopefully but did not grow. These were the interesting spores. They acted as if they were trying to grow, but needed something that they could not get from the agar or produce for themselves. So when a microscope showed such a spore, it was tenderly fed with vitamins, amino acids and other growth-fostering chemicals in hope of making it perk up and grow normally...
...glove with Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, and himself boss of a string of eight daily newspapers in Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming and South Dakota. Snedden paced the Senate and House office buildings, flipping through 3-by-5 cards printed with summaries of legislators' stands on the bill, fed data to pro-Alaska Senators, whipped up answers to every possible objection to statehood. His influence was everywhere. When Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson momentarily flagged in his zeal for statehood, he was spurred on by eight Washington editors who had been spurred on by Snedden. "You start...