Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsreel cameras he put on a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses and read briefly from a small piece of paper covered with typed notes: "I always love coming to America. But," he added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President...
Louisiana has called a Governors' race and set Dec. 5 as primary day. And sure enough, Louisiana's third-time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) Governor Earl Long, 63, has put himself squarely in the running-even though, according to law, he appears to be politically paralyzed...
John thinks about this for a minute, and his colleagues clap their hands. This for them is an expression of approval for a well-put question...
...like that!" Natalie Vasilievna stops them. "First you have to put on robes and caps...
...addition to the very real naivete with which we as a delegation approached many situations, it is important to remember that on a number of occasions during his visit to the United States the author of the Ogonek article had been rather hard pressed to answer the questions put to him. His experiences with the American press and at Harvard were, on his own admission, especially unpleasant in this regard--a fact which could not be admitted in Ogonek, but which could be avenged through the satirical use of Harvard as a symbol of the rich capitalist class which oppresses...