Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Tenorio, Lott had a stronger case. The army raiders got search warrants in advance and stayed carefully within the law. Other U.D.N. spokesmen were anxious to condemn Lott. But they were reluctant to defend Tenorio until they saw whether ballistic tests on the seized weapons shed any light on the dozens of unsolved murders in Caxias. Nevertheless, Lott's re-emergence as constable of the realm, playing power politics without a by-your-leave from President Kubitschek, stirred uneasy fears of army dominance. Kubitschek, whose declining popularity makes him ever more beholden to Lott, conferred quickly with...
...Premier. In office, Suhrawardy quickly shed his Nehru neutralism and his old Indian sympathies; instead, he supported Pakistan's membership in the U.S.-sponsored Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and the British-sponsored .Baghdad Pact, won the plaudits of Moslem Firsters when the U.N. made its strongest-yet condemnation of Nehru on Kashmir. In the touchy situation after Suez, he spoke up firmly to doubting Moslems on behalf of the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...when you lie down across the dizzying, wavy path, if you have not already shed your curly locks one by one, nor one by one your teeth, if your limbs have not worn out one by one, if the dust of the world has not, before your last hour, sealed your eyes from the marvelous light, if you have, right to the end, kept in your hand the friendly hand which guides you, lie down smiling, sleep happily, and sleep privileged...
Salvation in a Shed. There was only one instinct, one Air Force rule of survival, to follow: go downstream. And down Pilot Steeves struggled day after day-crawling, hobbling and sliding through snow-filled gorges, sleeping in hollow logs and under sheltering rocks. In 18 days he went 25 miles, finally got to Simpson Meadow (elevation: 6,000 ft.). There, crazed from hunger, he stumbled on a park ranger's storage shed. Breaking in, he found more matches, fishhooks, a map of the area and a tiny store of provisions-a can of beans, hash, tomatoes. He wrapped himself...
...that he couldn't make it, lost his underwear when he opened his mouth. Making his way back to shore, he trudged back to the cabin, the bones of the deer carcass, and a couple 1954 issues of the Reader's Digest he had found in the shed. His favorite Digest story: the tale of a man who was washed off a ship and remembered how much he loved his wife and children while waiting for rescue...