Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court that when they nabbed him, his eyes were watery, his face was flushed and he could not pick up a coin from the floor, Gailius won an acquittal by explaining that sinus trouble had made him teary, he had been sunburned, and he was exhausted from a game of tennis...
...editorial writers (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) than presidential leadership. At a strictly political level, President Eisenhower showed little interest in his party. Last week even loyal Eisenhower-Republican Senator Cliff Case of New Jersey was moved to comment on Ike's lack of "love of politics and the political game." Said Utah's G.O.P. National Committeeman Jerry Jones, himself a middle-road Republican: "We have no political leadership. Ike, with his aloofness from politics-his attitude of being above it all-has made us all just a bit ashamed to be politicians." When Ike finally entered the 1958 campaign...
...spent the night at the club's austerely furnished, dingy white lodge. Next morning he shot four more ducks, then took off to spend a weekend with his lawyer brother Edgar in Tacoma, Wash. On the agenda, if the leaky grey skies cleared up: a golf game. Odds-on to win: elder brother Edgar, who shoots in the low 70s, this year won the Pacific Northwest Seniors Golf championship...
Divide & Rule. The latest twist in Middle East rivalry is that imperialist Moscow is back at playing a divide-and-rule game among the Arabs. Only six months ago, Khrushchev had told Nasser in Moscow: "You will have all necessary help from us" in uniting the Arab people. But despite their recent promise to lend money for the Aswan Dam, the Reds are tying more and more knots in their tight economic strings on Cairo. And the Communist Party is emerging in Syria and Iraq as the violent foe of further Arab unity under Nasser. The Communists know that Nasser...
...strangest phenomena in an otherwise unusual season is that the strongest team on paper appears to be fifth-place Brown. The Bruins are right behind Dartmouth and Harvard in total defense and trail first-place Cornell by three-tenths of a yard per game in total offense...