Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Addressing a joint session of Texas' legislature last month, Lone Star Statesman Lyndon Baines Johnson piously declared: "I have no aspirations, no intentions, no ambitions for office other than that I hold." He preferred instead, explained U.S. Senate Majority Leader Johnson, to serve fellow Texans as a legislator. Last week, with all 31 members signing as cosponsors, the Texas senate passed-and sent to an eager house-a bill allowing candidates to file for both statewide office and the U.S. presidency or vice-presidency on the ballot for this summer's Texas primaries. The bill mentioned no names...
...good-hitting Latin nine scored quickly on a first-inning triple and a subsequent single, but then fell behind as the Yardlings scored lone runs in the second and fourth frames. In the second, Jim Dwinell hit to left, moved around on an infield error, and scored the tying run on Boone's base...
Meany introduced the lone Administration spokesman. Labor Secretary James Mitchell, as "a good friend of "mine-I want everyone to know that." Said Mitchell: "I have enough faith in the basic health of the American economy to state that by October of this year there will be 67 million people at work, 3,000,000 more than there are today, and that unemployment will be 3,000,000 or less. And may I say to my friend George Meany: If this isn't so, George, when the October figures come out, on the steps of the Labor Department...
...Khamba tribesmen were driven from the pastureland they had used for centuries. Tribal chiefs resented their loss of power te the commissars. The Khambas, great shaggy men often 6 ft. tall, with leather boots, 3-ft. swords and rifles they are born and die with, fought back. Snipers bushwhacked lone Red couriers on the new road to Lhasa. Khamba bands ambushed military convoys. The embittered monks drove off the Chinese farmers sent to take over their land. To teach them a lesson. the Chinese Reds sent bombing planes and leveled the intransigent lamaseries...
...room in St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Ariz, was heard to sigh deeply, and then he was dead. So last week departed Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, three days after a successful operation to remove an intestinal block. With his passing, the U.S. lost its greatest architect-a lone, yeasty genius who devoted his life to working out his own unique vision of what architecture could be in a democratic society. "If this were an age like the Renaissance." said Architect Eero Saarinen. "Frank Lloyd Wright would have been honored as the Michelangelo of the 20th century...