Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literally, "break-break"), all-night looting outbreak, was in the offing. With the danger that the unrest might boil up into a full-scale general strike, President Vargas summoned Mayor-elect Jânio to an urgent conference. As a first result of this session, Jânio, a lone-hander who had won without making commitments, took office at once instead of waiting as scheduled until April...
Yale promises to dominate the first installment of the three-day circus, and the following two as well. The 1500-meter is the lone event on tap tonight, and the Elis may well place four...
...Texas Neverland of poor millionaires, a faded parchment heads the list of valuables. This is the Lone Star Resolution of 1838 which claims that the Texas coastline and three leagues seaward belong to the state. Since this area includes the oil-rich tidelands property, the resolution could eventually cost the Treasury $250 billion dollars...
From the distance came the sound of funereal music and the muffle of treading feet. Then came the flower bearers from the Hall of Columns, hundreds of them. Soviet generals bore the Generalissimo's medals on red pillows. Next came a lone soldier on a jet black horse. Then eight more black horses pulling a gun carriage. There, framed in red for revolution and black for death, rode the coffin of Joseph Stalin, the dead man himself visible through its glass dome...
...Texan knows, the Lone Star State is the biggest, richest, toughest and most cultured in the land, with the prettiest women; Texans learn all this at their mothers' knees. But last week, in a free-swinging, heavy-handed piece of low humor, Esquire (circ. 819,000) took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk...