Word: mowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends of the Chinese Nationalists as Congressman Walter Judd and Senator William Knowland were shaken last August by a new outcry of corruption against the Chiang Kai-shek government. The attack came from two officers serving with the Chinese Air Force Mission in Washington-Lieut. General P. T. Mow and his chief aide, Colonel V. S. Hsiang. Their superiors in Formosa had asked them to account for $19 million entrusted to them for military procurement. Publicly refusing to do so, they declared that they were being persecuted by Nationalist thugs and thieves. Somehow, their version of the dispute, vague...
...Formosa government brought civil suit in the federal district court in Washington to compel Mow to account for the millions put into his hands, and to return any money still left (the Nationalists thought there ought to be $7,000,000). Mow retained as his attorney Colonel William A. Roberts, a Washington lawyer who fed a steady stream of "news" to reporters; the newsmen apparently hardly paused to ask whether Mow and Hsiang were really the victims and opponents of corruption they claimed to be. Over Roberts' objections the district court insisted that it had jurisdiction, ordered plaintiff...
This spirit holds men's hearts in the mow slopes long after they have left for the warmth of civilization. This spirit loosens alumni's purse strings enough to keep their outpost in the wilderness a growing, publicized center of the Spartan virtue--a healthy mind in a healthy body. This spirit nurses class rivalry back to health too, after such incidents as last weeks tug of war accident which sent six men to the hospital...
...77th year returns to power after being loyal all his political life, he is liable to bring with him a certain amount of dead or dying weight. Over a late drink in a West End club, young Tories have confided that they wish "someone would mow the front bench down with a machine gun," or that "the old man, God bless him, would throw in the towel." They feel that some senior Tories have no communion with the new Britain...
Spectacled, scholarly looking Pitcher Jim Konstanty never had the mow-'emdown speed of Dizzy Dean nor the big sweeping curve of Lefty Grove. This year he never so much as started a game for the Phillies until the World Series came along, and he lost that in a 1-0 heartbreaker. But last week big Righthander Konstanty was voted the Most Valuable Player in the National League...