Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bedraggled and mud-soaked, footsore and soul-worn, the first planeload of Hungarian refugees debarked into the crisp free air of New Jersey. A few carried cardboard suitcases holding the residue of the past. Weary men in caps, somber-faced women in babushkas, children suddenly aged, paraded into the warmth of American hands. As the U.S. Army Band played Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5 hundreds of waiting Americans wept...
...Jersey's 13th District, incumbent Democrat Alfred D. Sieminski, 45, trailed Republican Norman Roth by 149 votes after his district's 282 voting machines had been counted. But Sieminski won 637 absentee votes to Roth's 431, finally edged his opponent 54,841 to 54,784, became the only Hudson County Democrat to withstand a G.O.P. rout of the Kenny machine...
...biggest challenges to the new conservative is to broaden educational opportunity. To business, which is donating $100 million a year (up 25% since 1955) to private schools and colleges, education is more than a means of providing trained personnel. Reasons Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey Chairman Eugene Hoiman: "A creative society must be a free society, built on men and women who are broadly educated to manage their own affairs. The only sure guarantee of progress comes from helping millions of individuals to arrive at their maximum potential, to express themselves, to turn loose their initiative and ingenuity...
...Carlisle. The ball was caught on the Indians' seven yard line by Johnson, their quarterback, but instead of making interference, the Indians grouped around Johnson as if to make a "flying wedge" formation. With this huddle of bodies as a shield, the ball was shoved inside halfback Dillon's jersey...
Fall-Out or Saucers? A few pigeon fanciers blame an unusual combination of the pigeons' normal enemies: hawks, hunters, high-tension wires, TV aerials, adverse weather. Others are not so complacent, pointing out that these familiar dangers would not be likely to increase in New Jersey, Arizona and England at the same time...