Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority for an amendment that would require jury trials in civil rights contempt cases; Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney has announced his support of such an amendment, while apparently wavering are such influential Senators as Minority Leader William Knowland of California and Assistant Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana. Such an amendment, said Assistant Attorney General Warren Olney III, would "emasculate the whole bill." Olney's choice of words, retorted Southerners, merely proved that the original intention of the bill was to rape the South. With those salvos, the big guns of the civil rights...
...when a fellow passenger on a Bangkok-Hong Kong commercial airline flight confided to him: "I've been contacted to find a pilot to fly someone out of China." The passenger, said Bush, turned out to be a British travel agent, based in Bangkok, by the name of Mike Sullivan. Pilot Bush and his new friend continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage by the Chinese Communists...
...what"we call happy. You take Hoffman orange. It's absolutely rollicking. Our lemon is almost giggly . . . We are sorry about Hoffman sarsaparilla. Why isn't it happy? Well, let me ask you, could you be happy if your name were sarsaparilla? My name is Mike Baker...
Died. Rear Admiral Edward Joseph ("Mike") Moran, U.S.N., 63, jut-jawed World War II captain of the light cruiser Boise, who won fame for his part in the 1942 night battle of Cape Esperance, off Guadalcanal (he ordered on contact: "Pick out the biggest one and fire!"), in which half a dozen Japanese warships were sunk in 27 minutes of close-range shelling; in Paris...
...Crimson made its only scoring drive of the afternoon midway through the second period when Mike Shaw and captain Mac Hyde, on an assist from Jim Herscot, penetrated the rigid Tiger defense to register the team's only two tallies...