Word: helm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly emotional issue, will hold good in a contest for the leadership of the New Boston. Mrs. Hicks did carry Boston in her unsuccessful candidacy for State Treasurer last year, but as in the past, she was competing for the political second string. If she wants to take the helm of an All American City, Louise Hicks will have to doctor her image considerably. She now stands on a completely negative, reactionary platform, and is better known as an ax-man than as an innovator...
Commenting on De Gaulle's decision to seek re-election, Francon, a native of France, explained that "France's foreign problems are so grave that she must have a strong man at the helm." De Gaulle must be re-elected, he said, because "there is no one who could receive at much support from the French people as he probably will...
...government right down to the grass roots, having seen "with his own eyes at least 15 million Frenchmen" in the past seven years. And besides, great men are sometimes too busy for everyday commingling. "Whoever believed," said General de Gaulle, that General de Gaulle, "once called to the helm, would content himself with inaugurating chrysanthemum shows...
...later got his technical training as an executive at Texas Instruments, went to Perkin-Elmer as a vice president in 1961 because he wanted to be nearer the salt water. When the company's president resigned because of illness eight months ago, Nimitz took the helm...
...that Díaz and most of the others had been bullyragging him mercilessly for his pro-Castro sympathies. He had fled Cuba last fall in a boat, leaving behind his wife and three daughters. Now he longed to return. On the night of the shooting, he had the helm on the bridge when Captain Díaz started going at him again. Díaz, he said, sneered that in Tampa next day the crew would hand him over to "the people in Ybor City," a section of town jammed with Castro-hating exiles. Ramírez pulled...