Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate, the Chinese Reds announced that they were holding four more American military airmen, in addition to the eleven already listed as convicted on espionage charges. The four, named by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., were Lieut. Lyle W. Cameron, 25, of Lincoln, Neb., shot down while on an armed reconnaissance flight over North Korea, and Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., Captain Harold E. Fischer. 29, of Swea City, Iowa, and Lieut. Roland W. Parks, 25, of Omaha, all downed while on combat missions over North Korea. The General Assembly resolution last week...
...Lincoln White, a State Department spokesman, yesterday said, "No deal it involved...
...Meteor Expert Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico has figured out the chances of any human getting hit in 100 years are only three out of ten (TIME, Nov.12...
Bohrod's most prized ($4,500) fool-the-eye painting in the Madison exhibit is Still Life with Portraits, a weathered door hung with a worn horseshoe, a bugle, an ancient pistol and pictures of Lincoln, Sarah Bernhardt and Henry Clay. Another achieves part of its realism because it was done in collaboration with his seven-year-old son, Neil. Against the usual wooden background, it shows a leaky water pistol, Halloween masks, a torn piece of a newspaper photo and a child's slate. On the slate is a drawing of a witch-by Neil...
...film The Caine Mutiny and read the novel, he may become aware that both stories are about the same sort of thing, but that Billy is a tragedy while The Caine Mutiny is a tempest in a large and interesting teapot. Billy Budd carries echoes of the vocabulary of Lincoln and of a time when the great issues were debated at the top of men's voices, in the richest words at their command. And Billy Budd's themes, often thought to be peculiarly modern-the individual and the state, innocence and authority-are far better expressed...