Word: tanners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back from a nine-week swing through South America came a thinner, tanner, more relaxed Adlai Stevenson last week, and seldom have loyal troops given a more resounding cheer to a general splashing ashore. Enthusiastic correspondents dogged his footsteps. Columnist Marquis Childs hailed him as a "brilliant, complex, resilient individual" torn "between dread and desire." Prestigious Pundit Walter Lippmann urged Candidate Jack Kennedy to solve the problem posed by his Roman Catholicism by accepting second place on a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. Across the U.S., the scattered but sizable and zealous band of supporters who had given up Stevenson for lost...
...Nottingham tanner, 31-year-old Author Sillitoe left school at 14 to work in factories, turned to writing during the war while serving as an R.A.F. radio operator in Malaya. Far from being one of Britain's heavily intellectual Angry Young Men, Sillitoe is extremely matter of fact in his recital of the war between the two nations. The blokes he writes about may have been "put inside" for anything from arson to stealing cars, from burglary to grabbing passing women and "trying to give them what...