Word: hurrahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERY four years, in just about the length of time it takes to produce a baby hippopotamus, the U.S. brings forth a President. From the first, frosty preprimary campaigning in February until the last hurrah in November, the nation becomes increasingly absorbed with its own inner stirrings, increasingly detached from the affairs of the outside world. In happier times, the U.S. could afford its quadrennial ''year of paralysis" while an indulgent world stood by until everything was once more in order in Washington. But in the presidential-election year of 1960-the year of the Communists' world...
...Hurrah for the American U-2 Trans-Russia scheduled airline...
...world's most belligerent peace lover, and loud public opponent of all nuclear testing, could Nikita avoid denouncing France in strong terms? The answer came clear when, after a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, Khrushchev encountered De Gaulle in Rambouillet's 16th century Hall of Marble. "Hurrah for France!" cried Nikita...
Dead Calm. The usually reserved President Charles de Gaulle cried "Hurrah for France!" and cabled ecstatically: "Since this morning she is prouder and stronger!" Proud French officials said that weather conditions had been almost ideal in the red rock and sand testing area of Reggan, some 750 miles southwest of Algiers, lying near an ancient caravan route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Niger River...