Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed two-thirds (14) vote for this program, Guatemala's stubborn President Jacobo Arbenz will have to make a serious decision: either to control his rampant Red comrades or take the risk of some future-and perhaps far heavier-demonstration of his neighbors' disapproval...
...Operation China. The news hit British headquarters like a tropical thunderstorm : there were conferences and ultimatums, but the only hope that remained lay with Policemen Henderson and Ruck. At week's end, the pair made one last brave attempt to make Operation China work. Heavily armed, but heavier still with bitter disappointment, they drove into a forest rendezvous. It was April 10, the deadline set for Mau Mau surrender; Kareba had promised to return with many chiefs who wanted to give up. Henderson and Ruck waited. No one came...
When Adlai Stevenson showed up last week in Charlotte. N.C., newsmen noted his heavier tan and lighter humor (compared to his showing in Miami last month), but few other apparent changes. If not running for office, he was at least a man in motion. He was still glad-handing party pols and casting pearly wit before crowds (on his bothersome kidney stone: "A subversive element"). It was only in his major speech, wildly cheered by some 3,500 Carolina Democrats, that a bigger change showed...
...note with pink sashes. But from 1829 to modern times, the advantage has been Cambridge's. Between 1924 and 1937 the light blue was unbeaten for 13 straight years. Last week, with the series standing at 54 for Cambridge, 44 for Oxford, and a dead heat in 1877, heavier (by 5 Ibs. a man) Cambridge was favored to make...
With Government Money. But what has McCarthy to lose? He is not running for President. He has no organized following to nourish and protect. His Senate seat is safe for five more years. He runs unhandicapped by responsibility and even by the heavier forms of ambition. What he thirsts for is what he got last week−a sense of personal power, personally wielded, a centripetal force that brings men to his doorstep and makes responsible officers of Government turn in their tracks before his onslaught. A President cannot do that. A Senator, McCarthy's kind of Senator...