Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target Elusive. None of this was very exciting. As every city boss knows, candidates should make great promises, roar for reform or sail into their opponents, particularly incumbent opponents. Frankensteen found that attacking his opponent, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, was disconcertingly like shadow boxing. In six years as mayor, Jeffries had done little, had made few bad mistakes...
Last week France's No. 1 journalist-in-exile packed his belongings in Washington, including his cocker spaniel Busy Bee, gift of his good friend Walter Lippmann, and got ready to sail home. He hoped to celebrate his 63rd birthday on the Atlantic. It had been five years and four months since "Pertinax" sailed out of Bordeaux on a British destroyer, away from a France which had not heeded his Cassandra-like warnings...
Holy Serpents! Backed by the blessings of the gods and the winds of the spring equinox, the Argonauts set sail. On the Island of Lemnos, which was peopled solely by women, the Argonauts generously stopped off to help out with the spring sowing. Nine months later, 200 children were born on Lemnos, of whom no less than 60 were said to be the spitting image of Hercules...
...King announced that he was going to Washington for brief talks with President Truman over the weekend; then he would sail from New York for London. Because he would take time to visit Canadian troops and battlefields, because he would "see for myself something of the changed world in which Canada must make her way," he would probably be gone a month and a half...
With his Cockney mother, Queen Rose, the young ruler will sail to his kingdom as soon as passage can be arranged. Meanwhile he is brushing up on his Malay...