Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their places. Then fortnight ago. he cracked down on leaders of a strike, jailing them summarily along with dozens of others who had dared to criticize the government. To prison went the respected Dr. J.B. Danquah, Nkrumah's own mentor in the original independence movement, and young Joe Appiah, a politician who is married to the daughter of Britain's late Sir Stafford Cripps. Peggy Cripps Appiah was ordered to leave the country immediately; later the government backtracked, announced it merely wanted to pay her way back to England if she and her children wanted to leave...
...Iowa was ranked No. 1 in almost every preseason poll, could well give Coach Jerry Burns a big winner in his freshman year. A decisive 27-8 victory over Indiana last week strengthened Iowa's chances. In Quarterback Wilburn Hollis, Halfbacks Larry Ferguson and Sammie Harris and Fullback Joe Williams. Burns has the finest backfield in the Big Ten-but his bench is weak...
...rather be Speaker than any ten Senators," he sometimes said. "I love the House." It was a love that stretched back to early boyhood. As a suntanned youngster in Bonham, Texas, he peeped under the flap of a fairground tent and, with thumping heart, listened to the thunderations of Joe Bailey, a hell-for-leather Congressman. That did it. Later, Sam confided his ambitions to a brother: "I'm going to make a lawyer and go to Congress...
...when the G.O.P. won control of Congress, the nominal heir apparent was James R. Mann of Illinois, the Republican floor leader. But Mann had been a supporter of the policies of despotic Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and he lost the speakership to Massachusetts' Frederick H. Gillett...
Comedienne Stritch punches out her lines with the raucous authority of a pneumatic drill, and in a number called Why Do the Wrong People Travel? she is a song blaster in the megaton range. Choreographer Joe Layton paces the show with wryly inventive dance sequences, notably a goofily spastic Beatnik Love Affair. An Italian wedding party that turns into a tourist trap is a hilarious cross-cultural spoof. But the S.S. Coronia is really a ship of the desert, and it is a long dry haul between oases...