Word: fetching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dictator's most recent concern began three weeks ago with the arrival of Adlai Stevenson. President Kennedy's special envoy dutifully heard Stroessner out, then had U.S. embassy cars sent to fetch half a dozen opposition delegations. In his farewell airport message. Stevenson said pointedly: "The protection of civil rights, free elections and democratic procedures would greatly enhance international respect for Paraguay, and confidence in her future development and prosperity...
There was a time-and it was not so long ago-when the first word in a standard English-Swahili phrase book was "boy" (meaning an African of any age), and one of the first sentences to be mastered was, "Boy, fetch my boots." But under the noses of the colonials, the natives were taking a subtle revenge. Last week the Chicago Natural History Museum put on display 31 primitive sculptures from what might be called "the Colonial School"-a school of art dedicated to the proposition that the master race is slightly ridiculous...
...endure anywhere from five minutes to an hour of stupefying drama about racketeers and handsome reporters that is worth watching only because each reporter is able to say. "This time you've gone too far, Rocco," without removing the faint smile from his lips. Eventually, press and prey fetch up at a speakeasy, always in time to catch Dorothy's number...
...delicate little drawing of a wispy young woman by the 15th century Flemish Painter Hugo van der Goes made twice as much news. It was a study the master had made for a painting, possibly of St. Barbara. The painting has been lost; the study survived to fetch...
...furthering Warden Jones's reform program. Back at Fort Smith, Ark., he told Jones, he owned a fine stud horse whose services he would gladly contribute to Parchman's animal farm. With written permission from Governor Barnett, Jones sent Morris, along with two guards, off to fetch the horse. The guards and the horse came back. Morris didn't, and not until last week was he captured in a Tulsa, Okla., bar, a loaded pistol tucked in his belt...