Word: roland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also found installed among the fishing gear a large assortment of radio equipment that seemed more than enough for modern fishing purposes, and an extra-long (3,000 ft.) sounding line. Since the Russian captain knew only a smattering of English, Lieut. Sheely put in a call for Radioman Roland Poulin, 19, Massachusetts-born son of French Canadians. Poulin was hustled over from Hale, soon found a Russian who could speak French. Still, Poulin had trouble making the Russians understand that the U.S. Government was gravely concerned over the cable breaks...
...Grab Life Jackets!" Rimmed on the lake shores were radio operators who heard the call, heard the voice of Captain Roland Bryan shouting...
...front, on the back helpfully lifts the disguise: the author is a committee, Harry Middleton and Warren Kiefer, onetime P.R. men for the drug firm Chas. Pfizer & Co. Writing at double strength, they achieve one of the most moving scenes of nobility in defeat since The Song of Roland. Pressagent Joe Logan has corrupted a war hero and seduced his fiancee while boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly beset by Senators is too much. Logan...
Democratic Senator William Proxmire retained his seat against Republican candidate Roland Steinle. Voters also chose Democratic candidate Nelson as Governor...
...says his other waste-cutting, tax-loophole-plugging bills would more than make up the deficit). Reason No. 2: The G.O.P. managed at its state convention last May to paper over the long, debilitating feud between Taft and Eisenhower factions, settled on a compromise candidate named Roland J. Steinle. 62, a former state supreme court justice who had been out of politics for years and had few enemies. But in the campaign's heat Steinle turned out to be 1) ineffective on the stump; 2) too conservative for some Ikemen; 3) too little known statewide, even though his Catholicism...