Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vigorous and valiant opponent in the campaign. These qualities will now be dedicated to leading us all through the next four years ... I urge you all to give General Eisenhower the support he will need to carry out the great tasks that lie before him. I pledge him mine...
...West Virginia, Democratic Senator Harley Kilgore, running under the friendly gaze of John L. Lewis and 115,000 United Mine Workers' Union members, was seriously challenged but managed to defeat former Republican Senator Chapman Revercomb...
...cold rain was falling. On the west bank of the Black River, the French were loading an ambulance with wounded. Into the top shelf went a Frenchman with face wounds; into the middle shelf, a Vietnamese whose left foot had been blown off by a mine. Around his head lay grimy salvage from his pockets: a wallet, a watch, a rosary, bits of candy. Into the bottom shelf went a Moslem with a shattered leg, his bared, shaven head showing the tuft of hair by which Allah would raise him to heaven after death. The guy ropes of the medical...
...windswept field near Bolivia's big Catavi tin mine, President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped to a rude table one day last week and with a golden pen signed the decree nationalizing the country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing...
...London, crowds gathered in Leicester Square to catch a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth II, who arrived to preside over her first command film performance-Because You're Mine, starring Mario Lanza. The new black & white "magpie" evening gown, which the Queen wore for the occasion, turned out to be a star attraction too. Three days later, West End department stores reported that a copy of the Queen's gown (price: $27) was a sellout item...