Word: speared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director J. Edgar Hoover, Johnson took a conciliatory tack, said that he hoped "that this would not degenerate into a battle of personalities." He smiled widely as he spoke on the healthy state of the economy, while aides bustled on and off the porch bearing charts like Wagnerian spear carriers. The President predicted a record retail business for the Christmas holidays, declared that "I hope and expect" steel prices will remain stable next year...
Central Africa's weird little holy war went into its third terrifying week. On one side was the government of Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda; on the other the spear-bearing, fanatic followers of Prophetess Alice Lenshina, whose hybrid cult mixes white magic with the teachings of the Church of Scotland...
...voice of the animated Aero-Shave mermaid. They do Northwest Orient's Oriental airlines song, A.T. & T.'s longdistance elegy, and Alka-Seltzer's bel canto promise: "Relief is just a swallow away." One of their super-specialties is, "Look for the spear and get chewing enjoyment...
...York, traffic lights are useless mechanisms, except when they glance off wet pavement on rainy nights, and spear the darkness with electric colors. Then they are appreciated by artists or other wandering aesthetes. But they have nothing to do with traffic...
Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi...