Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorry, John," Crimson basketball coach Floyd Wilson said to his opposite number, John Barry of M.I.T., Saturday night after the varsity had inflicted an 84-34 clobbering upon the Engineers at Rockwell Cage. Wilson had reason to be abashed, for his charges had run away with everything but the program concession...
...take-off message, the President of the U.S. spoke with quiet precision of the reason for his eleven-nation, 22,370-mile global mission...
...Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck, who has been busy on the West Coast and elsewhere promoting Charlie Halleck as the G.O.P.'s most promising vice-presidential bet, suddenly called off the campaign. Reason: the folks at home have that neglected feeling, are wondering whether Charlie has been taking them for granted. Result: from now on, 13-termer Halleck will concentrate on wooing the Hoosiers in Indiana's Second Congressional District (which gave him a none too solid plurality of 6,000 in the 1958 elections), will bide his time until next July's Republican Convention, when...
...Christmas himself, riding on a farm cart in the hot afternoon sun. As he stepped down from his cart to hand out the presents, screaming children grabbed his arms, hugged his legs, reached for his beard. "Man," said Father Christmas, "this is tougher than breaking rocks"-and he had reason to know...
This was not to be; last week Nkrumah's obedient press in Ghana was lambasting Mboya as being a "stooge of imperialism" and "under the thumb of the Americans." The reason: Mboya had dared to challenge Nkrumah in the race for leadership of the budding trade-union movement in Africa...