Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adenauer admitted he had had some adverse mail himself; his favorite postcard, he chuckled, bore only three words: "Sie alter Gauner [You old scoundrel...
Secretary Bright denied all charges, shouted that his staff had been "pretty good crucified in here by dirty innuendoes." The Blondie v. Blackie battle will continue until all mail ballots can be counted. In the meantime, Senator John McClellan confirmed that his Labor Rackets Committee has been taking a look at A.G.V.A. For the moment, Crusader Singleton seemed to have the last word. Said she about her opponents: "I have a national reputation as a housekeeper, but I resent having to clean out their kind...
...rash of four-minute miles (the milers denied using pep pills). Though the use of pep pills has been banned for years by both the Amateur Athletic Union and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, seven of 773 college and high school coaches replying to the A.M.A.'s mail survey admitted they used pep pills on their athletic squads. Presumably, there were other users who did not admit...
...money it cost, the proud new S.O.B. was more vexatious than a slippery collar button. The clocks had bronze hands that were too heavy to hold the time. The mail chutes choked up with letters, had to be taped closed. Slow-moving elevators forced Senators to overflow into freight lifts. Private conversations were being filtered into the corridors through louvered air ducts in the doors. Long-legged lawmakers cracked their kneecaps against low-slung desks. And the new subway to the Capitol lay dead-ended about 250 ft. short of its destination (cost to complete...
...three hours at Kaduna. 3,000 turbaned horsemen, 7,000 warriors in medieval chain mail, archers, lancers, musketeers, musicians, dancers, tumblers and snake charmers paraded by. The durbar celebrated self-government for northern Nigeria, the last step before Nigeria as a whole-now a federation of three regions, each with its own Premier-would become independent within the Commonwealth in 1960. "The future may not be easy for you," warned the Queen of England through her uncle. "You have a heavy task before...