Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deplore that under my picture and over the caption pertaining to my work the wrong name was put...
...after the train pulled out of Washington's Union Station, Meyers handed a porter a note for the Herters, a few moments later was welcomed into their room for an informal interview ("I had known you were aboard," said Herter later, "and I must confess I was quite put out about it"). While Meyers was having his chat with the soon-to-be-appointed Secretary of State, other TIME staffers were digging into Herter's life story elsewhere, and summing up the record of John Foster Dulles, whose stamp on world history has been reflected and examined...
President Eisenhower winced at the task before him. Responding to an overnight message asking him to telephone Secretary of State Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital, Ike climbed the stairs to his vacation headquarters above the golf pro shop at Augusta, sadly ordered the call put through. When Dulles came on the line, the President asked: "Foster, how are you?" Secretary Dulles replied: "I'm not getting better enough, and not soon enough, Mr. President." Then he added: "I believe we ought to move now." Slowly Ike answered, "I agree...
Brought in to reform Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge after political appointees had mismanaged their way into a riot in 1957 and a sit-down strike in 1958, able Warden Floyd E. Powell, 46, gave convicts a break. He put salt, pepper, mustard and catchup on the mess-hall tables, instituted TV-watching hours, worked hard to shape up the grim, turreted brick buildings built...
...game was close until the last inning, when Pennsylvania put over the two deciding runs, and had the Crimson been able to hit, it could easily have taken the lead and won. The Quakers even went to the trouble of giving the varsity four baserunners as a result of four errors, but the Crimson batters were unable to bring them home...