Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half the teams had one apiece; but after some hard playing near the 50-yard line, Lowell House rushed down to the 'Cliffedwellers' cage to slip the winning point past the goalie, who was slightly bemused by the crowds of men who appeared everywhere--the Bellboys seemed to have no use for the conventional positioning patterns...
...they sometimes are when taken one or two phrases at a time, present confusion together. However, two poems by Stephen Sandy come to rescue readers from the rain of apples in Wright's poem. Both are very tightly written, exotic pieces: "Moulay Ismail and King Louis' Daughter," and "Near Marrakech." The second of these is particularly ingenious and vivid...
...fake, staged by a squat, bombastic Little Rock haberdasher named James ("Jimmy the Flash") Karam, the man who spurred on anti-Negro mobs for Governor Orval Faubus last fall (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957). Under Karam's direction, a taxicab deposited the Negroes, identified as James Howard and family, near the Hall High School at 8:40 on the morning of the balloting on the issue of segregated v. integrated schools...
Back in Formosa, Choi was packed off to recuperate at Peitow, a sulphurous spa near Taipei. There Choi woke up one morning to find he was paralyzed from the hips down. He telephoned a friend at Taipei's Friends of China Club. "I'm at Peitow, and I'm paralyzed," he said, and added-in his awareness that Peitow is a famed carousing place: "Please don't laugh...
...collector, moderately pro-Mussolini U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1933-36), twice (1917-20, 1940-44) Assistant Secretary of State, lifelong Wilsonian, internationalist Democrat who was among the leaders of the Roosevelt-for-President forces at the 1932 Chicago convention; after long illness; at his sumptuous country home, Montpelier Manor, near Laurel...