Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of statehood, Alaska's two Senate seats are called Term A and Term B. In order to provide the groundwork for the constitutionally required overlap of senatorial terms, one has a tenure of four years, the other of six, but the Senate will decree which is which only after the Nov. 25 election. Bartlett filed for Term...
This blazed a clear trail for Mike Stepovich. Last week he announced his candidacy for Term B. There he will oppose grey former Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening, a Democrat Mike Stepovich may be able to beat...
...fighter, afire with the killer instinct and the true fighter's determination to win. As a boy in the Louisiana marshes, he dropped his bird with the first shot. As a young schoolteacher, he asked for a school in Franklin Parish, where no teacher had lasted a term, and in the requisite number of recesses he beat his beefier charges into docility...
Murphy listened attentively, acting the role of a friendly observer ready to help, but always making clear that the U.S. hopes urgently for a peaceful internal settlement of Lebanon's crisis. The July 24 parliamentary deadline passed for choosing a new President to succeed Chamoun, whose six-year term expires in September. Nonetheless, the Speaker's postponement of elections until July 31 gave promise that a solution might be found...
...shows the philosopher as a younger man, paddling after evildoers in Oxford and London. Ambrose has just done a job of espionage in civil-war-torn Spain to accommodate a friend in the Foreign Office, and he wants a few weeks of peace before the fall term starts at Oxford. But he needs money (he has worked out a scheme to pauperize the Grimaldis' gambling hell at Monte Carlo), and a millionaire industrialist offers him ?500 to truffle out some missing Bach concertos...