Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew westward to San Francisco to address the International Industrial Development Conference, Vice President Richard Nixon did some heavy thinking. Nixon had never quite agreed, in National Security Council or Cabinet meetings, with the budget-first thinking that had put a $38-billion ceiling on defense spending. Now, in the second week of Sputnik, he drafted a speech that was considerably stronger than the President's own let's-keep-our-shirts-on position. Said Nixon, in effect, "Let's roll up our sleeves," and thereby he set the Administration on a realistic course between the hand...
Long before federal troops flew into Little Rock, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, an undeclared but unabashed candidate for his party's presidential nomination in 1960, accepted an invitation to speak to Mississippi Young Democrats at Jackson, in the deepest of the Deep South. But ever since Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus kicked over the Democratic civil rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern...
Charges of corruption flew. Says Yulo: "If Garcia wins, the graft will in two years produce economic chaos and a new Communist upsurge." Retorts Garcia: "Yulo says he is an honest man, but everyone knows he is being sued for taxes." Actually, both Garcia and Yulo are considered personally honest. A rarity among veteran politicians, Garcia has never been accused of enriching himself in office. Even opponents have conceded that suave, handsome Yulo is "a clean drop of water in a pail of dirty Liberal mud." Both are profoundly pro-American, but Yulo emphasizes his business experience as equipping...
...crude, vulgar and unbecoming display of a nasty temper." Thus wrote Florida's Supreme Court in 1953, scolding Circuit Judge Stanley Milledge for the way he had bawled out an attorney in his courtroom. In Miami last week, testy, white-haired Judge Milledge, 61, flew into another tantrum and onto Florida front pages in probably the least judicial photograph of a judge yet to reach print...
Hero's Return. When the Braves flew home to Milwaukee immediately after the last game. Burdette was still sputtering with tension -his eyebrows flapped, his forehead furled and flattened, his shoulders seemed to shrug of their own accord, his cigarette ashes fell all over his bright yellow and black necktie. "Hey, Lew, how you feel?" a boy called...