Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milburn P. Akers, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, C. A. Knight, editor of the charlotte, N.C., Observer, and Dwight E. Sargent, editorial page editor of the Portland, Me., Press Herald and Evening Express, were named...
...Communists of his own party in line, can best move towards the peace abroad that is ours for the asking." Indeed the Nation said more: in an oblique flick at Stevenson, it warned that the problems of peace are now so touchy that the U.S. could not "tolerate much knight errantry." The Nation's concluding advice to liberals: don't get committed until Ike declares his intentions; then wait to see what Earl Warren decides, and then wait to see whether the Republicans "shelve Mr. Nixon." There was the unifying thread again...
Cohen was almost even with Manhattan's Lou Knight, the heat's eventual winner, when he tripped and fell at the last hurdle. In spite of this mishap, Cohen picked himself up and finished second, but his time was too slow to qualify for the finals...
...dingy Madison Square Garden a television screen went blank just as the President began speaking, came brightly back just as he finished. There was evidence of ward-level tricksters at work: the Los Angeles dinner committee, dominated by Nixon supporters, invited California's Governor Goodwin J. Knight to appear only after making certain that Knight had already accepted an invitation from San Francisco. Sniggered a committee member: "When 'Goodie' found out that the San Francisco dinner wasn't going to be on television and the Los Angeles one was, he almost busted...
...personal basis California's Goodie Knight marveled at "what it is that could cause so many people to express so much devotion. This man isn't handsome. He's almost bald. He is not an orator. He is not a politician in the sense of being skillful at the calling...