Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man flushed with the vigor of his bursting prime, to the doddering human wreck you see before you. "It all began at about seven this morning. I was sleeping the sleep of the young and the innocent, as is my custom of a morning, when the phone rang. I got wearily to my feet, staggered into the living room, and picked...
...morning of V-E day, 1945, ten thousand Moslems appeared in the streets of Abbas' own home town of Setif brandishing banners which read, DOWN WITH COLONIALISM, FREE MESSALI. There was a scuffle as gendarmes tried to wrest the banners away, and then, inevitably, a shot rang out. In sudden fury, bands of Moslems took off through Setif, savagely attacking every European they saw with clubs, knives and hatchets. And as word of the Setif "uprising" spread through the rugged mountains of Kabylia, bloodthirsty Berber bands, killing, pillaging and looting, set off on the warpath against the area...
...names of potential candidates: Tom Dewey, onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list, began to pump for Rockefeller. Said he to a gathering of county leaders: "Either you guys support me while...
...pictures," said Salesman Jim Hockney of Manhattan's Studebaker-Packard Salon Inc. "We have orders, with deposits, for 40 cars-which is just 39 more than we had last year at this time." The new American Motors Rambler is almost the same as the '58 model, which rang up a company-saving 171,000 sales. American expects '59 sales to climb to 252,000, and many dealers are already well ahead of last year...
...Minnesota, stirred by a lively competition between onetime Governor Hjalmar Peterson and Representative Eugene McCarthy for the senatorial nomination, Democrats moved pollwards in impressive hordes, handed McCarthy a rousing majority of 176,000-and some 40,000 more votes than Republican Incumbent Edward Thye rang up in his race for the Republican nomination against two little-known competitors. Consensus for November: Thye will have to hustle to keep his seat. Neither the wraithlike opposition of Marvin A. Evenson, a Moorhead businessman, nor the wrath of her husband Andy, who cried bitterly and vainly for Representative Coya Knutson to come home...