Word: staked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star in the skies. While Shelton covered the Cape launching of Explorer, Washington Correspondents Ed Rees and Sherwin Badger sweated out the rocket shoot with Pentagon brass, and Atlanta Correspondent Lee Griggs went to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., to report Huntsville's big stake in the firing. For a narrative account of the history-making night, see the first four pages of NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...collaborator of them all, Vichy Chief of Government Pierre Laval, drew his death sentence from a "High Court of Justice" that included resistance veterans who yelled curses at the defendant. When Laval swallowed poison just before his scheduled execution, doctors pumped out his stomach, guards propped him against a stake in the prison yard, and the order of the court was carried...
...treated Hartack at least as well as vice versa, and his only vocal complaint is that a lot of people, including sportswriters, call him Willie, a name he detests; he prefers Bill, and the girls all call him Bill. His followers have a complaint as well. Too many people stake their cash on his talent, so the odds on a Hartack-ridden horse almost always take a dive before the field gets into the starting gate. This even Hartack deplores. "Every time I ride a horse that's a legitimate 4-toi shot," says he without unseemly modesty, "he comes...
...brink into economic disaster. So far, he is still ahead on his gamble. In his heedless impatience, he has achieved things that more reasonable men would never have attempted. Turkey's peasants, for the first time in history, are something more than beasts of burden, have a stake in their country's future. Turkish industrial and agricultural production are far above 1950 levels, and still inching up. Says the representative of one West German company that has been shipping goods to Turkey without payment: "The Americans will never let the Turks down. One day we will...
...regiments, the Semyonov and the Preobrazhensky would act in defense of the Assembly. Now word came that they had decided to remain neutral; they would neither go into the streets against the demonstrators nor join with them. Like other regular army units, they believed that all that was at stake was a simple misunderstanding between the authority of the Bolshevik regime and that of the Constituent Assembly. The soldiers hoped both bodies could find a way of uniting peacefully. So did the 40 delegates of the "Left" Social Revolutionaries who had decided to collaborate with the Bolsheviks. Lenin was later...