Word: snipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of their shots went wild, but sometimes a snipe hit home. After "Checking the Press" exposed the high incidence of identical Citizen and Dispatch stories, the Citizen began rewriting pressagents' handouts. With considerable Tightness, Franken and Grove pointed out that a football game for charity (Philadelphia Eagles v. Chicago Bears), sponsored by the Dispatch and the Columbus Ohio State Journal, cost Ohio taxpayers $60,000 more than the take...
After a week in which Fanfani could form no new government, and no one else of stature seemed prepared to form a government either, with Fanfani likely to snipe, a surprising event occurred. Professing himself disillusioned and "disgusted with politics," Fanfani, in a note pounded out on his own typewriter, abruptly resigned as party secretary "in order to eliminate any obstacles to the indispensable work of unity." And when dismayed leaders of the Christian Democratic machine urged him to reconsider, proud Amintore Fanfani bitterly replied: "Even if I were once again named Premier, I would not accept...
...disagreement with the U.A.R. is more than a simple misunderstanding." In Cairo lives the exiled Salah ben Youssef, who once fought alongside Bourguiba in the battle for Tunisian independence. Ben Youssef, says Bourguiba, has made seven attempts to kill him, has organized a private army in southern Tunisia to snipe at Bourguiba's soldiers. Bourguiba now has evidence, he went on, that Nasser's government was egging on Ben Youssef's conspiracy...
...into Little Rock to enforce the law that Governor Orval Faubus had defied, there has been grim silence between opposing forces in the Central High School battle. The moderates lost ground because the Justice Department backed down from its threat to prosecute the rioters. The segregationists settled down to snipe at harassed school officials who tried to abide by the federal court's order to admit nine Negroes to Central High, and keep classes going. And while, on the strength of the hate and confusion he had sown, Governor Orval Faubus rode nearer and nearer to his goal...
...Dwight Eisenhower is even more popular with the young ones than with old ones. As Ike looked on with moist eye, the Young Republicans adopted a resolution pledging themselves to "emulate your dedication to service and support your leadership." And they cheered lustily when Richard Nixon rapped "Republicans who snipe and gripe about the Republican Administration...