Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halleck is a true son of a state famed for its political gut fighting. By general tradition, an Indiana infant's first gurgles can be freely translated as: "I do not seek public office, but if in their wisdom the people see fit to elect me, then . . ." Rensselaer (pop. 5,500) is Halleck's boyhood town, a farming village in the northwest part of the state that inspired the song Back Home Again in Indiana. The seat of table-flat Jasper County, Rensselaer is as Republican as Vermont and twice as tough. Charlie's father. Lawyer Abraham...
...four weeks a 60-man FBI task force roamed Mississippi's Pearl River County (pop. 22,000). Agents questioned both whites and Negroes, prowled through farmyard and country thicket, homed in on the mob that had dragged Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect, heel-first from the county jail at Poplarville and shot him to death (TIME, May 4). Last week the agents abruptly closed their books on the case, locked up their temporary Poplarville field office. On their way out of Mississippi they called on Governor James Plemon Coleman at Jackson, left behind a dossier identifying...
Albania is the tiniest (pop. 1,500,000), the poorest, and most backward of all Communist satellites in Europe, and the only one that has no common border with another state in the U.S.S.R.'s empire. It is thus the one part of the empire that...
...weapons with which the old French National Assembly battered the 24 postwar Cabinets of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic into helplessness and defeat, the favorite by far was the deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...
...landscaped European concessions, onto the wide Bund fronting the busy Whangpoo River, swarmed the small neat soldiers in mustard-colored uniforms. The uneasy Red conquerors turned a startled gaze on the Western-style skyscrapers, the banks and private clubs and cabarets of the greatest city on the Asian mainland (pop. 5,000,000), which had just fallen to them without a fight...