Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word leaked out that Favorite Son Brown might have his sights focused on a lesser prize. In a September conference with Lyndon Johnson, the peripatetic Brown said frankly that Johnson could never win the California primary, though he thought Missouri's Stuart Symington could. This was enough to start a cautious Symington-Brown boomlet, which Symington backers hope to push into a second stage next winter at a Symington testimonial dinner in Missouri-with Brown as the featured speaker and most favored veep. ¶In Norman, Okla., oil-rich Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr (himself a Democratic presidential hopeful...
...aides sail through the back country in helicopters, festoon the towns with modern banners and posters, and hand out books of matches and other election trinkets by the thousands. Two TV stations-the first in black Africa-will carry Awolowo's campaign cries when they start operating early next month...
Over half the seniors last May planned immediate graduate study, while 64 percent expected it eventually. Military service figured imminently in the prospects of one man in five, while one out of seven intended to start working soon after graduation...
Besides Mudd and Hedreen, Munro will start Dick McIntosh and Tadgh Sweeney at wing, Larry Ekpebu at center forward, and Marsh McCall, Bill Rapp, and Charlie Steele at the halfback positions. Captain Lanny Keyes and Tim Morgan will be at fullback, and Tom Bagnoli will open in the nets...
...February 1587. Partly as a result, Spain's King Philip II, known as "the Prudent," abandoned prudence long enough to let himself be talked into a campaign designed to cut Protestant Elizabeth down to size. The project, tersely referred to as The Enterprise, was hastily begun. From the start, nothing went right with armaments, provisions, recruiting, and 3½ months be fore the Armada was to sail, its aged admiral died. King Philip unaccountably replaced him with the Duke of Medina Sidonia who objected miserably that "I know by experience of the little I have been at sea that...