Word: palo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sprawling California 29th congressional district that they are fighting for. The 2gth, undisputed preserve of G.O.P. Congressman John Phillips until he announced his retirement last November, spreads across 11,000 violently contrasting square miles. It includes the lush irrigated ranches (cotton, fancy vegetables, dates) of the Imperial, Coachella and Palo Verde valleys and Marslike desert mountains and flats. It in cludes the onetime citrus wonderland of Riverside County, now being turned into a thriving business area by the overflow of Los Angeles-bound migrants...
Jebbar Subbagh in a blossom-strewn ceremony at the First Methodist Church in Palo Alto. In time a baby son was born, and the local minister christened him Paul. Except for the homesickness in Abdul's heart, all might have been well, but at last (in Helen's words), "Nothing would do but we had to go and visit his mother in Baghdad...
...James H. Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy a far more important strategic-bombing role than the Air Force is willing to admit. ¶ In Palo Alto, Calif., Brigadier General Carl Hutton, boss of the Army's fledgling aviation service, argued that the Army must have its own greatly strengthened air arm, sneered at the idea that the Air Force has any "divine right to a monopoly on flying machines just because they fly," derided...
...Palo Alto, Calif., police arrested Herman Dale Reid, 31, suspected of having a hand in nine embezzlement cases, as he stood staring admiringly at his own "Wanted" circular in the downtown post office...
Definitions of liberal education abound--they range from the cultivation of gentlemanly tastes to the development of a certain frame of mind. All of them, however, emphasize the mature consideration of ideas. As a tool for developing this mature consideration, whether at Oxford or in Palo Alto, nothing has proven more fruitful than the writing of papers. In this light, it is disgraceful that a student of the humanities or the social sciences can go through a complete college year without writing more than two or three course papers...