Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airlines map of the U.S. on the living-room wall at home. Each trip, RM lined up the kids, varying in age from almost three to 20, for a briefing session on father Ogle's latest assignment. Once, when a uranium rush took him to Lake Athabaska in northern Saskatchewan, which would be about four inches above the top of the Ogle map, son Andy, 10, exclaimed : "This time daddy went clear out of this world...
...from the North and the West were ready to combine politics with principle by finding a way to change the Senate's famed Rule XXII and its built-in right of filibuster. Not only did they have the Southern conservative Democrats to contend with; some conservative Republicans and Northern Democrats feared civil rights less than they did a rule change. As the fight readied, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Bill Knowland got together with opposing forces, set up a schedule that provided three hours for each side to make a record for the folks back home. Everybody...
Gaitskell questioned the value of two of the alliances set up with uncommitted countries. While he approved the military implications of the so-called "northern tier" agreement, he criticized attempts to make it into an entire Middle Eastern policy by tying economic aid to it. He also hit the SEATO agreement as a "paper pact," without military effectiveness...
...Working the post-season game pitch for all it is worth, the Shriners put on two classic all-star contests. At Miami's Orange Bowl, a Northern eleven, led by Oklahoma's All-America Halfback Tommy McDonald and leaning heavily on the good passing arm of Purdue's Len Dawson, beat the pride of the South, 17-7. At San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, Stanford's All-America Passer John Brodie joined forces with U.S.C.'s Jon Arnett and U.C.L.A.'s Pete O'Garro to lead his Western teammates...
...bright, moonlit night, and so, after entertaining Painter John Millais and his son at dinner, Wilkie Collins decided to see them home. Strolling together along the semirural roads of northern London, the three friends were halted suddenly by a piercing scream, and from out the gate of a villa dashed a young woman "dressed in flowing white robes that shone in the moonlight." Painter Millais exclaimed: "What a beautiful woman!", while Novelist Collins disappeared into the night crying: "I must see who she is and what's the matter...