Word: forayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, New York City's voters seemed almost as confused as the can didates. The Times, reporting on a Levitt foray into the garment district, discovered that many voters still did not know who the state controller was-and that those who recalled the name thought he was Lefkowitz. Levitt was regarded as a slight favorite in the Democratic primary on the basis that a small turnout (400,000 or less) would enable his organization support to pull him through. But even if Wagner is defeated in the primary, he will still be the nominee of the Liberal...
...week's end Eichmann's verbal prancing was wearing a little thin. After an Eichmann foray into the minutiae of the Nazi bureaucracy's workings, Judge Landau snapped: "You were not requested to give lectures. Asked a specific question, give a specific reply...
...peoples, the Lao were driven out of southern China by Kublai Khan in the 13th century and fled south to the valleys of the Mekong behind a legendary king, Khun Borom, who rode "a white elephant with beautiful black lips and eyelids." There was, a century later, a brief foray at empire. King Fah Ngum, born with a set of 33 pointed teeth, grabbed all of present-day Laos and part of Thailand by elephant charge and labeled it all Lan Xang Horn Khao, "Land of the Million Elephants and the W'hite Parasol." He installed the golden Prabang...
Last fortnight the Kennedys made the same sort of social foray to have dinner with Newsweek's Washington deputy bureau chief, Ben Bradlee, whose wife is a close friend of Jackie's. In the early hours of the morning after Inauguration Day, the President dropped by at a private party given by Columnist Joe Alsop, who lives in bachelor splendor in Georgetown among his parakeets and treasured antiques. Fortnight ago, the President went hiking with the Chattanooga Times's Pulitzer Prizewinner Charles Bartlett, whose wife is John Jr.'s godmother. Last week he took...
...this May. Such a first trip abroad as President would be the most practical way for him to greet all allied leaders at once and in an offhand way-without the panoply and expectations of a formal "Western summit." Before he goes he will have made his first major foray into personal diplomacy on U.S. soil, welcoming British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan on a "working" visit to Washington, beginning April...