Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks the President had been urged by Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and House G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleck to do what he had never done in the six and a half years of his administration : throw his great public prestige into a raging congressional fight-this time into a long, long fight for labor reform with teeth. Last April the Senate passed the mild and much-amended Kennedy-Ervin bill that requires unions to make annual financial accounting, bars convicts from high union jobs, respects rank-and-file rights, but makes no real move to clean up abuses of boycott...
...Genially hosted the entire thousand-guest conference-Governors, aides, newsmen, wives, children-for a half-day's free play at brother Laurance's $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel and Golf Club, cheered others on to fun and frolic but kept himself busy at his political chores except for one much-photographed ocean...
...tons of dynamite and 4½ tons of Car-Prill (a highly explosive mixture-ammonium nitrate and oil) that he was to deliver to customers at dawn. About 1 a.m.. back in his hotel, he heard fire engines roar by, ran toward his truck. He still had half a block to go and a corner to turn when a blockbusting blast smashed him against the ground. Clocks all over Roseburg (pop. 12,200) stopped with hands pointing...
Khrushchev himself had rarely bubbled so with glee. A half dozen times in the past year, he had hinted at, demanded and cajoled visitors for an invitation to the U.S., and now that he had it, he was a status-seeker who had got what he sought...
...Chicago. Officially, Soustelle is Minister Delegate to the Premier, with four responsibilities-the Sahara, atomic energy ("but not the bomb"), overseas territories and overseas departments-but he prefers to be known by his unofficial title, Minister of the Sahara. A solidly built, wavy-haired man with blandly skeptical eyes half-hidden behind owlish glasses, Soustelle calls himself "a typical Frenchman," and in some respects looks the part. But at various times in his meteoric career this tough, confident and shrewd man has been described as "the Molotov of Gaullism," "Jacques the Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman...