Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word comes from a report published in Whig papers on the eve of the 1844 election, attributed to a fictitious Baron Roorback. The report, an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Democratic Candidate (and slaveholder) James K. Polk, charged that a gang of slaves branded with the initials J.K.P. had been seen on their way to Southern markets...
Monica Thomas (Oct. 1) has certainly seen through the camouflage issues of the cost of living, farmer subsidies and world peace to the real question: "Can a man with toothy sons find happiness as the President of a wealthy and titled nation...
Never have I seen such a blatant disregard for intellectual honesty as was displayed in the story on Herman Talmadge. How you must fear this capable man ! The darkness of your minds is pitiful...
...Moscow relations-a personal note to Ike from Premier Bulganin calling on the U.S. to join with Russia in bringing H-bomb tests to a halt (but making no mention of the U.S. insistence on safeguards). Ike was nettled because Moscow had published the text before he had seen it. He was angry because Bulganin noted that "certain prominent public figures in the United States"-i.e., Adlai Stevenson -had proposed a plan to stop H-bomb tests. And the President characterized as "personally offensive to me" a charge that Secretary of State Dulles had distorted recent Soviet atomic proposals...
...major that it would be better for her husband's career if she left. Some reluctant officers were summarily transferred to Okinawa, where the U.S. can control entry of dependents. Reported one marine wife: "The morale of the Corps has sunk to the lowest level I've seen in my 13 years...