Word: straights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day calm returned, and the delegates quietly discussed a straight-shooting definition of intervention, introduced earlier by Colombia's Turbay: supplying weapons to start a civil war, allowing the export or import of such weapons, recruiting and training revolutionaries, permitting radio or TV broadcasts that encourage rebellion in another state...
...Minneapolis Moran's bird failed to sing. Minneapolis Tribune City Editor Robert T. Smith puckishly printed a straight-faced story that ran through a whole catalogue of cars without using the one word that Moran was trying to get into print-Lark. Smith's story...
...pump and an outhouse; his grandfather had a big black mare named Kate. When he was seven and weighed just 55 Ibs., Ussery was clattering across the Oklahoma flatland, perched like a raisin on the bare back of Kate, and celebrating a win over other mounted kids by riding straight into a water hole, Kate...
...high incidence of polio this year (21 cases, three deaths), the segregationist Citizens' Council loudly denounced the board for opening schools "in the face of a polio epidemic.'' In short order, the board got a signed statement from 35 Little Rock physicians that set things straight. Said the doctors: the polio is centered in preschool children; teenagers are safer in the relative quiet of high school...
...sentimental householder warming up his woofer, dusting off his diamond needle, and joining in for an evening of mooed music. More likely, the nation's mature citizens are merely striking back at rock 'n' roll, buying the sing-alongs because they like listening to simple, straight songs...