Word: rams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once impregnable Congress stronghold in Gujarat on India's west coast, Minocher Rustom Masani, 57, general secretary of the right-wing Swatantra Party, downed a Congress nominee by an impressive majority of 14,000 votes. To the north in Uttar Pradesh, Socialist Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, who took his defeat at the hands of Nehru himself in last year's election, trounced a former government Information Minister. Worst slap of all came in another Uttar Pradesh constituency, where victory came to lean, acerbic Independent J. B. Kripalani, 76, the veteran Congress politician who had left the party...
...even when there is no hole ("I won't be intimidated''), never cuts when he can run down a tackler instead ("I like to sting them a little''). Crouched low to present the smallest possible target, Taylor uses his head like a battering ram, swings his free elbow with the authority of a mace...
...leader and as Williams' lieutenant governor presiding over the chamber-and he had always been on friendly personal terms with them. Skinning into office by 4,000 votes, Swainson at first tried playing pal with the legislative Republicans. He got nowhere. This year he turned tough, tried to ram through a fiscal reform program that included a 3% income tax. He still got nowhere. In the past fiscal year, Michigan's deficit increased by $13.9 million, to $85.6 million...
Dragged Governor. As the British prepared last month to ram the federation proposal through Aden's Legislative Council, Labor Boss Asnag whipped up excitement at a series of rallies. "This is not unity but slavery!" he cried. "Instead of more freedom we get less. We are going backward. From a British colony we are now becoming a protectorate of the British and the sheiks!" When Asnag told the crowds, "You are the people and can do anything; you can hang your enemies and drag ministers, even the British Governor himself, through the streets," he was jailed for incitement...
Unearthing a marble slab showing the menorah, the seven-armed candle-holder, a tree, and the shofar (the ram's horn used to announce the New Year), the American archaeologists became convinced that the large structure was the meeting place of the Jewish community of Sardis...