Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy was quick to reply. "No U.S. warship seized any Russian ship," said Admiral Felix B. Stump, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The State Department summarily rejected the Russian charge as "without foundation." Then the Chinese Nationalist government spoke up: the tanker had been seized by the Nationalist navy, because its cargo of fuel oil was a strategic material and was consigned to a Communist company in Shanghai...
...London during the First World War. The book's hero, Ferdinand, is a victim of a German strafing attack, which leaves him feeling as if ''nailed to the shutter like an owl." He has a deafening singing noise in one ear. a gnawing migraine, a mere stump of a left arm. Honorably discharged but too beaten up to realize the fact. Ferdinand goes to London, where he makes a beeline for the French "colony" on the river ("That's what they call the Thames"). In a dockside pub he teams up with Boro, a sleazy French...
Native Wit. It was only the first blow of the week for Bidault. Bidault had sworn that if the Laniel government fell, he would remain at Geneva as representative of a caretaker government even if he had "to go back to France every two or three days and stump the country" for his policy. The actual vote (see below), with its majority of two, was almost...
...Plus-Two: Just after midnight, the Communists surge again towards Bald Head, marked by a single lightning-blasted tree-stump etched against the flarelight. The Moroccans repel them, and quiet comes. For almost eleven hours the tired armies get a rest. Early afternoon, the Communists slam in heavy strength against Bald Head, and edge the Moroccans off the crest. But De Castries is still confident. "Le moral de mes hommes est formidable," he says on the radio to HQ. "If you see my wife," adds De Castries coolly, "give her a kiss from...
...Kentucky's Alben W. Barkley, 76, longtime Senator and former Vice President, who in recent months has left no stump unoccupied or baby unkissed, finally made it official. He will run for the Senate seat now held by able Republican John Sherman Cooper...