Word: stoked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HELP FOR RAILS is expected from higher mail rates. Eastern lines demand 70% boost, which would stoke up revenues by $82 million a year, plus retroactive payments of $145 million. Post office has offered 15% raise that would bring rails about $17.5 million yearly. ICC will hand down decision this summer...
...refusing to get out of the last of its conquered territory (the Gaza Strip, the Gulf of Aqaba shore) without specific guarantees, and that the Arab-Asians were demanding U.N. sanctions.*If Israel did not withdraw, said Ike, there would almost surely be a new guerrilla war that might stoke up a general war, in which the Russians might once more be tempted to intervene. If the Israelis did not withdraw and the U.N. did not act, the U.N. would be more or less through. As for the Arabs, Ike pointed out that they could scarcely be expected to negotiate...
Ever ready to stoke up Arab rivalries and suspicions, Russia's Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov accused Britain, France and Israel of planning "new aggression" against Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and Radio Moscow bristled against Turkey and Iraq. Just in case Syria's anti-Communist neighbors were genuinely worried about a foray from Syria, the U.S. State Department announced that it would view "with the utmost gravity" any threat to "the territorial integrity or political independence" of any member of the Baghdad Pact. This was also meant to remove from Turkey and Iraq any pretext for moving into Syria...
...campaign days are 18 hours long; the toughest of them begin at 7 a.m. and end at 3 a.m. the next day, only to begin again at 7. When Nixon was hit by the flu in September (TIME, Oct. 8), he refused to slow down, ordered his doctor to stoke him with antibiotics and vitamin pills and spray his throat with cortisone. Although he eats little on campaign tours (a light breakfast, a sandwich on the road, a snack before his evening speech, an attempt at dinner afterward), he actually gained two pounds on his first tour, has maintained...
...place was a brightly painted new one: "The Stevenson Presidential Special." The switch was symbolic, for the Democratic candidate, with less than three weeks to go before E-Day, had gotten about as much mileage as possible out of Joe Smith, well knew that it was time to stoke the campaign with all the burning issues he could find if he was ever going to reach the White House on time...