Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnstorming. In Foyil, Okla., after trying to decide what to do with the half of his barn that had survived a storm, Farmer Burt Quigley slept on the problem, woke up to find the remaining portion had been blown down by a second storm...
Both delighted and impressed by the insight apparent in Artist Artzybasheff's portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson on April 25 cover. Or am I presuming too much by my interpretation of the prominence of a certain portion of the donkey's anatomy? MARION T. MOSES
...First colonized (and named) by Germany 76 years ago, Togoland after World War II was split into British and French mandates without regard to tribal boundaries. In 1957 the British portion was folded into Ghana, whose ambitious Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah openly covets the French part he did not get. As late as 1958, France was still stubbornly rejecting any talk of Togo independence. Then under prodding from Togo's able pro-Western nationalist, Sylvanus Olympic, 57, the U.N. ordered an election in which Olympio's Committee for Togolese Unity swept two-thirds of the seats, and thereupon...
...bondslave. But the ship is wrecked off the Isle of Mull, and David, washed ashore, soon finds himself involved in a political murder case. Pursued by Hanoverian redcoats, he flees through the Scottish Highlands. Home at last, David lays his uncle by the heels and gets his ancestral portion...
Persuasive Poll. The supporters of Humphrey see West Virginia as their big chance, because a large portion of the state lies within the Southern Bible Belt, with an electorate composed mainly of mountaineer Protestants likely to be wary of a Roman Catholic candidate. Catholic Kennedy minimizes religion as a political issue, and to prove his point, he produced a private poll last week, taken in West Virginia last January, which showed him ahead of Humphrey...