Word: foes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screen version of Grierson's Raid through the depths of Confederate territory during Grant's advance on Vicksburg. Summoning all her Southern charm, the proud beauty invites Wayne and his officers to dinner. Making the most of her downfall neckline, she leans low over the harried foe and offers him chicken: "What was yoah preference, thuh laig or thuh breast...
With a clank of beer mugs, the four mountaineers tossed off a heady toast one night last summer and then sat down to plan their assault. They had picked a formidable foe: the continent's highest mountain, 20,320 ft. of rock, ice and swirling snow that Alaskan Indians call "the Great One." McKinley had been climbed 13 times since 1913, but never by the precipitous southern route, a feat considered the greatest pioneering climb remaining in North America...
Most of Strauss's troubles were caused by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, senior Senate member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and a longtime Strauss foe, who filled page after page of the hearing record with charges of extraordinary bitterness. But Lewis Strauss contributed to his own problems: despite his obvious abilities as a public servant, he made a poor witness, angered Democrats with his argumentativeness. embarrassed Republicans with his evasiveness...
WASHINGTON--President Eisenhower issued yesterday a statement of sorrow calling Dulles a lifetime laborer for world peace, a foe to tyranny, "one of the truly great men of out time...
...fewer cars, it was possible for the lucky few to speed across country or through cities with ease. But last week, its inadequate road net jammed with 8,000,000 cars, 1,500,000 motorcycles and uncounted millions of bicycles, Britain was locked in a death struggle with a foe long familiar to the U.S., and even more deadly in densely settled Britain: the traffic...