Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old administration of a remarkable Deep South governor, Mississippi's James Plemon Coleman. Coleman wants time to show what Mississippi can do on its own-and he probably wants to run for the Senate in 1960 against Race Baiter James Easttend. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Six-Foot Wedge...
...might once more be tempted to intervene. If the Israelis did not withdraw and the U.N. did not act, the U.N. would be more or less through. As for the Arabs, Ike pointed out that they could scarcely be expected to negotiate with the Israelis while Israel has "a foot in their face." As for himself, he added that it was impossible to negotiate or compromise "with a country while it has its troops in the territory of another." ' Hopes for Unanimity. If the U.S. did not take a firm stand for principle, the U.S. would lose its friends...
...fanatic, a man of ideals, of courage and of remarkable qualities of leadership," Matthews wrote. Dressed in olive-drab fatigues and carrying a sniper's rifle with a telescopic sight, Castro seemed idolized by his men. Asked how he got supplies, Castro flashed a stack of pesos a foot high, hinted that he had plenty more. The morale of the rebels, whose number Castro kept to himself, seemed high. Batista's troops "never know where we are, but we always know where they are," Castro said. "We can pick them off at a thousand yards with these guns...
...weasel" was sent part-way to the ravine from Pinkham Notch to bring Lister down. The other members of the party, who were not identified, returned on foot...
...friends change from uncaged animals to human beings with purpose and pride. With two girls who were her fellow prisoners and a young Dutch seaman, she starts out on the long journey to her home in The Netherlands. The book becomes a picaresque adventure as the quartet travel by foot, horse cart, boat and truck. Along the way are Germans, sullen or penitent or self-pitying; Russians, busy "liberating'' wristwatches, bicycles and women; and a boisterous medley of all the races of Europe who had been penned into camps by the Nazis and are now moving deliriously toward...