Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dance of Doubts. The lone dark horse, unknown to the Eastern newspapers until his dramatic flight across the continent, found himself an overnight favorite with the tabloids. "Slim" or Captain Lindbergh to his St. Louis backers, he is dubbed the "Flyin' Fool." Photographers crash his hotel room at Garden City, L.I. for pictures of "Lindy" shaving, Lindy in pajamas. When reporters quiz his mother on how she feels about the suicidal risks of the flight, Lindbergh flares into a sharp resentment of the press which he never lost. With his plane grounded by storms on the Atlantic, doubts begin...
...Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position. In London, Beaverbrook's Daily Express raised a lone voice blaming the government for letting India "drive a wedge between Britain...
...revealed a couple of interesting facts: a gross estate of $1,234,516, and Hughes's high respect for government and municipal bonds as a safe and proper investment. They accounted for $1,101,748 of his estate, while only $39,078 was in private corporation stock-a lone investment in Julius Garfinckel & Co., Washington specialty store...
...Texas, the Cossets were startled to find the Lone Star Republic's flag still flying outside public schools alongside the Stars & Stripes, the French embassy still standing at the old Lone Star capital of Austin. They were even more startled by some of the tall tales Texans told until they realized that it was just gasconnade (as Frenchmen call the braggadocio of their own "Texans" of Gascony). In Crystal City, Texas, the world's self-styled spinach capital, the Gossets found a statue of Popeye in the public square...
...impart important information to Britain or the U.S., he bypassed their emissaries 40 miles away and sent word halfway around the world to his ambassadors to go see the Foreign Office or the State Department. The only direct, official link between the foreign minister and the diplomats was a lone assistant protocol officer left behind in Tel Aviv, and even he disappeared for four days last week to take his law examination...