Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California is a mouth-watering morsel for any presidential aspirant. With 81 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention, it shares with Pennsylvania the party's second-strongest honors (first: New York with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G. Brown has been wooed like a Spanish infanta for those votes. Every major candidate has gone West to learn "Pat" Brown's intentions, and Brown has parried them all with the answer that he will lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite...
Racing to the arcade, the four men scaled a 6-ft. gate and entered the second jewelry store. There they scooped up another $140,000 worth and found the keys to yet another Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' store. Next stop: Regent Street, branch No. 3, and the biggest haul of all-jewelry worth $420,000 and keys to the associate jewelry firm of Arthur H. Drew Ltd. in Victoria Street...
Back in Czarist days, Russia was fifth in world industrial production and fourth in Europe. Today, the Kremlin declares, it is far ahead of the rest of Europe and second only to the U.S. in world rankings...
Canada is rolling through an era of high prosperity, with a standard of living second only to that of the U.S. But under this surface economic health, Canada has a growing ache in the economy. The pain: the nation's income, until lately greater than outgo, is now less...
...dominant individual in this period, in which the ball went from one end to the other quite frequently, was little Larry Ekpebu, varsity center forward. Ekpebu was fast and aggressive all day, but especially so in the second half. Often he stole the ball away from a Dartmouth defender and passed down the field only to be beaten by the goalie or another defenseman...