Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salt Lake City. Left for dead last November when he ran third in the three-man race for the U.S. Senate, Dinosaurian Sometime Republican J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee, 60, twice Utah's Governor and six times Salt Lake City's mayor, roared back to political life by blasting corruption, unions, the U.N., federal taxes and foreign aid, defeated Democratic State Senator Bruce Jenkins, 32. To Jenkins' warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy...
...which funnels thousands of vacationers from the East and Midwest toward Florida. For traffic on U.S. 25-301 (which makes a 90° turn), the light has been known to flick from red to green and hold for only 16 seconds-just long enough to let three left-turning cars through, and get the piled-up traffic rolling. Then its timer snaps through a quick-as-the-eye amber warning to a red stop...
Unless he slams on his brakes and risks a pile-up from behind, the fourth driver in the left-turn line-and sometimes the fifth and sixth-rolls through the red toward a waiting menace of another color: one of the two blue Chevrolets manned by the town's three-man police force, whose chief occupation is to collect a $15 "bond" from each driver not willing to stick around town to be tried and fined $15 for running a light...
Though in quick headline-reading terms the conclusion was disappointing to Laos and the West, the circumstantial evidence cited in the body of the U.N. report left little doubt where the blame lay in Laos. The committee examined captured North Viet Nam uniforms, rifles made in China and Czechoslovakia, hand grenades and medical supplies bearing Chinese lettering. Laotian witnesses testified that troops attacking them were identifiable as North Vietnamese not only by their green uniforms but by their language ("Mau! Mau!"-Quick! Quick!) and even by the common rice they ate (Laotians eat glutinous rice). Ten captured Pathet Lao rebels...
...does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation in Parliament Square: "Disraeli, Peel and Derby, with the treetops above them, suffer more than Palmerston and Smuts in the open. Yet Lincoln, behind Disraeli (who is worst afflicted of all), seems avoided by the birds in spite of being near a tree...