Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiastic receptions the people of Russia, Siberia and Poland gave Nixon proves how they, like us, prefer Nixon and Americanism over Khrushchev and Communism. J. KESNER KAHN Chicago
...worth of arms to its allies-while congressional appropriations averaged only $1.5 billion a year'. The difference has been made up by digging into the backlog by $1 billion a year. With the backlog now down to $2.5 billion, barely enough to provide lead time on complicated weapons like missiles and jet airplanes, arms deliveries will take "a drastic decline of 40% or more" by fiscal 1962 unless Congress increases the annual appropriation...
...Hoffa. His cold, hard eyes swept across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...
Much of this discursive novel is evidently autobiographical. Examples: 1) Like his hero. Author Stuart left Ireland in 1940 and spent most of the war years as a lecturer in Berlin; 2) Stuart was once highly praised by W. B. Yeats, once married to the adopted daughter of Maude Gonne, the Egeria of Yeats's nationalist literary salon; his Cassidy has an Irish wife and admits once knowing Yeats "quite well." At one point in the story Cassidy finds a cache of Irish whisky; Author Stuart's style resembles it-warming in small doses only, smoky and unpredictable...
...squirms out. ensures that the gawkers will come: Jasper is pinned down by a boulder. As rescuers start drilling to the roof of the cave, Isaac spiels out a professionally emotional account into his tape recorder and fires it off to a radio station.* Soon the hillside is humming like a camp meeting and hurrahing like a circus. The food concession Isaac has arranged is selling all the barbecue it can fork out, and the preacher's boy is also making profitable deals with the TV people...