Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salute you on American soil," said the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. last week-and there he was. There on American soil was Nikita Khrushchev, short, bald and portly, wearing a black suit, Homburg and three small medals, bowing down the receiving line, accepting a 21-gun salute, parading past a guard of honor. There on his one hand stood his pleasant, shy wife Nina Petrovna, his daughters Julia, 38, and Rada, 29, his studious-looking son Sergei, 24, and a retinue of 63 officials and bureaucrats. There on his other hand stood...
Blood & Paper. Assisted covertly at first, then openly by imperial troops, the Boxers attacked along the yo-mile line from Peking to Tientsin. They blooded themselves with wholesale massacres of the missionaries in isolated places, and marched on the cities. In Tientsin a young U.S. mining engineer named Herbert Hoover built stout barricades of wool, silk, sacks of peanuts and whatever other merchandise lay at hand, and the foreigners withstood the assault. The real fight was at Peking, the Imperial City...
...Hero's Diary. Author Fleming gives high marks for fighting ability to the Japanese, low to the French, except for one heroic action at Peitang Cathedral two miles north of the besieged legations. There, a thin line of 43 French and Italian bluejackets commanded by French Naval Lieutenant Paul Henry. 23. saved 3,400 refugees from death for eight weeks. Henry, the one authentic hero of the entire rebellion, died in the fighting, but left behind a fighting man's epitaph. Fleming recites the simple facts of his day-to-day log: "July 9: cartridges fired, 54; remaining...
Against the Williams tight defensive formation, nearly an eight-man line, Ravenel exercised the quarterback option often, opening up the defense for quick slash or dive plays. He ran effectively, scoring three of the Crimson's five touchdowns on 20, 25, and 30 yard rollout runs around end. And to cap off his virtuoso performance, Ravenel showed flashes of an improved passing technique that will make him an even greater threat this fall...
...much through his face and eyes; and his delivery of some short, forceful phrases was admirable. But the longer speeches tripped him up; he could not convey the sense, the rhythm, and the grandeur. He breathed improperly, so that he often had to pause at the end of a line when the thought demanded that he go right on to the next...