Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This plan would liquidate all of the free-world positions in the western Pacific area and bring them under captive governments which would be hostile to the U.S. and to the free world. Thus the Chinese and Russian Communists would come to dominate at least the western half of the now friendly Pacific Ocean...
...writes in the New Republic. Case in point: Tammany's passing over of onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter in New York to hand the U.S. Senate nomination to District Attorney Frank Hogan, who "has hardly voiced a public thought on a national issue in half a century...
Files and folders tucked in his arm, Detroit Labor Lawyer George S. (for Stephen) Fitzgerald, 56, strolled into the McClellan committee's high-ceilinged hearing room last week, as he has most days since the committee began to grill Teamster President James Riddle Hoffa and half a dozen Fitzgerald-represented Hoffa lieutenants. But this time the beet-faced, bulge-bellied barrister plopped himself not in the customary attorney's seat but in the red-leathered witness chair. For two days Witness Fitzgerald (without counsel) angrily denied that he had been furtive or unethical in carrying out sometimes strange...
...France wrangled its way closer to the date of the referendum on its new constitution, Premier Charles de Gaulle got a ringing endorsement from an old comrade in arms. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 70, standing down as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe after half a century of soldiering, told a farewell Paris press conference: "Quite frankly, I am a Gaullist. General de Gaulle stands for France more than any other person in decades. He is a good guy-and he is going to put this country right. If anybody disagrees, I'll wager...
...backfield, prospects definitely are bright. With Boulris at left half and Don Gerety, Albie Cullen, and Charlie Leamy also returning, the Crimson will have nice depth at the halfback positions. To bolster this situation further, sophomores Larry Repsher and Glenn Haughie, both halfbacks, have looked extremely fast in scrimmage, and Yovicsin will lean heavily on them this fall. Repsher, in particular, has shown himself to be an explosive runner--probably the fastest man on the squad--and may well be in a starting spot by season...