Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...78th birthday, the old man walked stiffly through a gauntlet of saluting generals at the Washington airport, to wind up his long, long adventure. At Highhold he and his wife relaxed into country life, his impatient cantankerousness mellowed into a kind of gentleness...
...State Dean Acheson drew a line in the dust that has so long beclouded U.S. diplomacy. He implicitly recognized that the war in Indo-China is no local shooting match. He pledged U.S. military and economic aid to the French and Vietnamese. The U.S. thus picked up the Russian gauntlet...
Every day at Charlie Binaggio's First District Democratic Club on Truman Road in Kansas City, boon seekers ran a gauntlet of stony-faced hoodlums, sought their favors of the gimlet-eyed man sitting beneath the bare light bulb behind the bare desk. Charlie was a political big-shot in Jackson County, President Truman's home county. He had 30,000 votes in his pocket. He boasted that he controlled 40 state legislators, that he had elected Governor Forrest Smith. But Charlie Binaggio, who looked deceptively like a mild and prosperous chiropodist, made a mistake which...