Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter of a century ascetic Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has slaved 18 hours a day, six days a week, giving the Portuguese the sternly ordered rule he thinks best for them. The least the little economics professor expected in return was public admiration, and for a surprisingly long time for a strongman, he got it. But though his budgets are tidily balanced, his people are still poor, and increasingly fed up with the lack of freedom and the harsh police methods of Salazar's paternal dictatorship. Portugal's money is stronger than the dollar, and prices...
...warfare between the Iroquois and Cherokee gave Kentucky its name, the "dark and bloody ground." The tradition of bloodthirsty cunning has survived with a vengeance in Kentucky politics, turned vote-hunting into a boyhood sport, factional throat-cutting into a party game that everybody enjoys. For the past quarter-century, two tough Democratic leaders have led their rival factions through a war that has engaged courthouse politicians in 120 counties. Last week, stalking each other behind hand-picked slates of candidates for state offices, the scarred chieftains were grappling toward a major test of power in the May 26 primary...
...lights go low at Manhattan's garish Latin Quarter nightclub. Onto the stage glides a slim-hipped, broad-shouldered man in white tie and tails. He grasps his partner, a stunning redhead in black tights, whirls her over his head on one arm, hurls her dramatically in a split-legged fall to the floor. The dance team is Nicholas Darvas and his half-sister, Julia, one of the top acts in the U.S. What the tired businessmen watching the show do not realize is that Hungarian-born Nicholas Darvas, 39, is a better moneyman than most of them...
...Crimson team's attack was hampered by the Stadium playing field, 25 yards narrower than regulation. The Crimson's faster three quarter line was prevented from running around the opposition's end because of the close side lines...
Throughout the game Harvard's Langy Kavaliku and Charlie Rowe, exceptionally fast wings, were unable to get the ball on many three quarter movements, and the attack thus lost much of its power. One of the times Rowe did have the ball, he raced 30 yards around the Nomad secondary, only to be tackled at the goal line. Many of the 400 spectators--and the Crimson team--thought Rowe had scored, but the ball was brought out for a scrum...