Word: forayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyed Dick Croker was a crook. A highlight of his rule came when the Rev. Charles Parkhurst of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church disguised himself as a Bowery tough and undertook a personal investigation of New York's vice conditions. Dr. Parkhurst's fellow crusader on this foray reported later that Parkhurst had sat "with an unmoved face" in a brothel, watching a troupe of naked prostitutes play leapfrog while Madam Hattie Adams playfully tweaked his whiskers...
Having lived through Maidman's foray, Moore and the other Tiffany heirs were breathing a bit easier last week. They seemed calmed by the knowledge that even if Bulova wins control it will have to keep Tiffany's tradition and tone. And as Bulova's Simon said: "We have no intention of displacing the management...
...from their war canoes: "Come to us, come on shore and we will kill you all with our patoo-patoos!" While the Maoris did not brain any of Cook's men with their patoo-patoos (war clubs), Cook got rattled for a rare moment during a sudden Maori foray and ordered his men to open fire. Four of the tribesmen were killed, to the kindly Cook's lasting regret...
South African Correspondent Edward Hughes has been on a tour of troubled Kenya. His arrival in Nairobi coincided with a bold night foray into the capital by the native terrorists. This event, plus talks with officials who are planning a new reform government in Kenya, gave Hughes a few fast days' work and a sharp on-the-spot FOREIGN NEWS story, Mau Mau in the Cathedral...
...want to abolish tax exemption for foundations. Apparently, he wants sharper legal distinctions between "good" research, which would be tax exempt, and "bad" research, which would not be. Who is the judge between good and bad research? Obviously, Brazilla Carroll Reece thinks he is qualified for an empirical foray into government thought control...