Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aide, clever Roy Cohn, who, with his buddy Dave Schine, had earned the name "Junketeering Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
...arrest for 20 days. Then the President called his emergency Cabinet meeting. Next day it seemed clear that the session had backed him up. He signed a decree suspending for six months all activities of both the November Front and a trouble-stirring right-of-center organization called the Lantern Club. On top of that, he ordered short-term house arrest as a token rebuke to a pair of politicking army generals...
...Brooklyn Dodgers, that final accounting, however it adds up, could seem like just another statistic. The Dodgers have played their big game. They played it as they should have, at home on Sept. 19, against the molting St. Louis Cardinals. The hero, as he should have been, was a lantern-jawed, beetle-browed pitcher named Don Newcombe...
...thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they can explore in a few weeks problems that would take an unaided worker years. In Detroit, where Henry Ford once puttered with his new car in an old stable, while his wife held the lantern, Chrysler Corp. has 200 scientists and engineers assigned solely to gas-turbine engine development...
Paid in Pink Shells. It was but a beginning. In a cave, the entrance to which was marked by a ship's red lantern, dismayed Captain Overton found many "immoral effigies" of ladies constructed of gourds and coconut shells. They were brightly but lightly dressed in "a set of signal flags." Inside the cave were bucketfuls of pink sea shells. "I made myself pay one [pink shell] every time I went . . .," Bunt explained, hoping that this example of self-control would show that he had tried at least to keep some check on his Buntism...