Word: foes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly beset by Senators is too much. Logan's cry, as he unsheathes his blowgun and prepares to stand off the foe: "The little son of a bitch is going to need help...
...huai, in a broadcast beamed at the Free Chinese, announced that shore batteries would hold their fire every other day so that supplies could reach Quemoy. Furthermore, said Peng, the Peking government stood ready to supply Quemoy with "anything" the island lacked. "It is time now to turn from foe into friend," he added...
President Eisenhower was quick to express his own and the nation's grief at the death of Pope Pius XII (see RELIGION), whom he "was privileged to know personally" in an audience in 1945. "An informed and articulate foe of tyranny, he was a sympathetic friend and benefactor to those who were oppressed, and his helping hand was always quick to aid the unfortunate victims of war." wrote the President. "A man of profound vision, he kept pace with a changing universe, yet never lost sight of mankind's eternal destiny...
Meanwhile, back at the statehouse, Old Foe Ernest McFarland, elected Arizona's Governor in 1954, nursed his grudge against Goldwater, never missed a ribbon-cutting, a chance to wave at a gathering of constituents or shake an Arizona hand. Last week McFarland opened his senatorial campaign in Willcox. where 50,000 Arizonans were conveniently gathered for the Rex Allen Days-two days of homage to Willcox's most prominent son, the movie cowpoke and star of TV's Frontier Doctor. Stalking the vote, addressing every male under 80 as "young man," Ernie paced Haskell Avenue, patting juvenile...
...West Germany's Minister of Defense, beefy, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been a vigorous foe of Prussianism. Whenever the officers of West Germany's new, "democratic" army showed any signs of reverting to the autocratic traditions of the Junkers, Bavarian-born Minister Strauss cracked down hard-and thereby won the applause of most of his countrymen. But last week Franz Josef Strauss was learning firsthand the full depth of West Germans' postwar distaste for jack-in-office arrogance...