Word: foes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heaviest Good Government votes came from the Negro districts-and from residential Pulaski Heights, where live Little Rock's leading citizens. (One Faubus victory: in Little Rock's changeover to a city-manager form of government. Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, Faubus' foe in the battle of Central High, lost...
...into such a hut, he saw no cause for merriment. The laugher was lying ill, exhausted by his guffaws, his face now an expressionless mask. He had no idea that he had laughed, let alone why. New Guinea's Fore (pronounced foray) tribe was afflicted by a deadly foe. It was kuru, the laughing death, a creeping horror hitherto unknown to medicine...
...Peter Goelet Gerry, 78, longtime (1917-29, 1935-47) Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, wealthy great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after long illness; in Providence. His state's first popularly elected Senator, shy Peter Gerry was a staunch New Deal foe, helped organize the opposition that killed F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court packing bill but, as an internationalist, supported New Deal foreign policies...
McGlue, a long-time foe of PR, is trying, according to DeGuglielmo, to interfere with Cambridge home rule and to change democracy to communism. The councilor said that McGlue had even tried to "halt the election" through petitions to the courts...
...other observations. It was a "disaster for mankind" that Communist China has not been admitted to the U.N. He was not pleased with Konrad Adenauer, the friend of NATO, apostle of free enterprise and foe of Communism. "The government of Western Germany," blurted Nye, "is coming more and more under the same economic and financial influence which helped to create the Germany of Hitler." As for the Middle East: "We believe that it is absolutely nonsense to imagine you can maintain peace [there] without an arrangement to which Russia herself will be a contributor." He did not point out that...