Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve to help put the international goodwill situation well in hand for the State Department, ist Lieut. Bob Mathias, 24, world and Olympic (1948, 1952) champion in the decathlon, turned out for an exhibition in Teheran. As admiring Iranians watched, he let a shaven-topped lad touch his discus for good luck...
...Methodist Church is under strong and specific injunction from the Method ist General Conference to oppose racial discrimination, allow Negroes to participate in church activities as equals. But a fortnight ago the Alabama Methodist Conference adopted a resolution demanding that the General Conference pass no legislation that would interfere with Methodists' rights to maintain segregated churches, schools and assemblies...
...create the splendor of Etruria, the largest collection of Etruscan art ever assembled was on exhibit last week in Milan's Royal Palace. Sixteen rooms were needed to show 422 pieces dating from the 8th to the ist century B.C. They were drawn from 43 museums and private collections. They fit together into a fresh and fascinating picture of a civilization which, Roman Historian Livy wrote, "filled not only the earth but also the sea for the whole length of Italy, from the Alps to the Straits of Messina...
...college of South Carolina; in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. West Pointer Summerall. commissioned in 1892, commanded an artillery platoon in the storming of Peking in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Armed with his famed credo. "Artillery exists only to protect and support the infantry," he commanded the ist Division and later the V Army Corps in France in World War I, was credited with achieving artillery effects without precedent in U.S. military history...
...case as party-line propaganda. While he rakes in folding money at a "Free Angel Rally," Barney turns over the boy's actual defense to David Blake, a solemn young law pro fessor out for "practical experience," who is too trusting to know what Barney's left ist hand is doing. The courtroom play-by play takes up most of David's time, and far too much of the reader's. But after hours, David climbs into bed with Bar ney's erstwhile mistress and they reach "unbearable ecstasy" together. Though David does his best...