Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dying empire, promptly exiled him to Flores in the Outer Islands, where with thousands of other political detainees he continued his revolutionary education, reading insatiably in Dutch, English, French and Indonesian and drawing new conclusions from an odd compost of Lenin, Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, Otto Bauer, Abraham Lincoln. He took time out-to divorce his wealthy widow and marry a young and beautiful Javanese girl named Fatmawati. He had no doubts about the future. "I entered prison a leader and I shall emerge a leader," he said...
...Asthma. He was born at 28 East aoth Street in Manhattan on Oct. 27, 1858, a calm evening that followed days of strong northeast wind and record tides. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, a merchant-banker, of a Dutch family famous for seven generations in New York philanthropy, was a "Lincoln Republican." His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia-bred secessionist. One of T.R.'s first memories was about how he cheered for the Union and about how he would cheer even louder to reply to his mother's discipline. One night at family prayers Theodore fervently appealed...
...world's tallest (570 ft.) stone monument, it was copied from a sketch in which Entrepreneur Jones combined his two favorite memorials: the Lincoln and Washington monuments in Washington...
...Sprinting in nearly perfect step, Australia's 19-year-old Herb Elliott and Mervyn Lincoln whipped across the finish line of a mile race in Perth, Australia in the identical time of 3:59.6. The winner by microseconds: Elliott, running his third successive mile in under 4 min. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Dublin's Ron Delany loafed through the second and third quarters but finished flat out to win in the slowpoke time of 4:10 over Hungary's Istvan Rozsavolgyi, who was running his first race...
...Buick choice by no means ended the excitement along Madison Avenue. At week's end the top agencies were scrambling just as hard for the Chrysler account that McCann-Erickson dropped. Up for grabs also is the $5,000,000 Lincoln account. Young & Rubicam gave it up three weeks ago when it decided it could not get along with new Lincoln Boss James Nance...