Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also the telephone and Beshoar's wide acquaintance with the people, the background history, and the current facts of the Rocky Mountain area. Now 42, Beshoar is a native of Trinidad, Colo. His father was a physician and surgeon there - as was his grandfather, who established the first drugstore between Denver and Santa Fe - in Pueblo, Colo, in 1866. Grandfather also founded four newspapers, of which only the Pueblo Chieftain survives (another, the defunct Trinidad Advertiser, provided the late Damon Runyon with his first newspaper...
...chilling calamity was ponderously proclaimed last week in unusual fashion-by a 1,054-page State Department white paper, weighing three pounds and selling for $3. Gone beyond recall beneath the Red tide (the U.S. was told) was the whole great heartland of Asia: the millions who had suffered first and longest the Axis onslaught, who had survived to resume their old fight against the armies of Communism. Bidding this nation bitter farewell, the U.S. Government seemed perilously close to adding: good riddance...
...stubborn problems, equally stubborn men. The Chiang regime (like the Greek government, which the U.S. also supported) suffered at one time or another from many of the worst vices known to governments: corruption and disunity, incompetence and indecision. Yet in a world racked by the evil and destruction of first fascist, then Communist aggression, the American job was to work with the world it found and know what world it wanted. In China, it tried and it failed. At no point in the long chronicle of its failure had it displayed a modest fraction of the stamina and decisiveness which...
...Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope from Chugwater...
...feel elated," said Winner Battle, "but I do feel it's a great victory for Virginia." Replied Loser Miller: "This is but the first round...