Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the black space shot Pioneer, trailing its dazzling fire, burning first one stage, then the next, then the next, shucking off, in turn, its carefully designed earth clothes. In three minutes it was gone from sight, truly free, reaching up to where no man-made thing had ever touched. And a few moments later, as if responding to the challenge, the waning moon rose out of the Atlantic to the east of the Cape...
...Iowa there are seven Republican congressional incumbents, one Democratic. Iowa had a bumper corn crop this year, but farmers complain bitterly about being caught in a price-cost squeeze, and Democratic candidates work hard at blaming it on Benson. Republicans, in turn, have made labor corruption a major issue; e.g., in 1956 Democratic Governor Her'schel Loveless got $17,5°° in Teamsters' campaign contributions in violation of state law. Republicans have high hopes that Robert Waggoner, former administrative assistant to Iowa's popular G.O.P...
...Butler, already worried over the Orval Faubus effect on northern Negro voters, quickly supported Gravel for his "integrity, candor and intelligence," snapped that the National Committee, which rules on its own membership, will keep Gravel in office until the 1960 convention. Louisiana's U.S. Senator Russell Long, in turn, noted pointedly that the State Committee decides who shall be called a Democrat on the ballot-a strong suggestion that Louisiana might turn thumbs down on the presidential and vice presidential candidates if the rebels do not get their...
...Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of 800 fund-raising Democrats against Republicans. The Mississippians refused to be distracted, gave their biggest applause to the cry of State Chairman Bidwell Adams: "I want to tell the honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat...
...Wolfe decided that Harvard had done all it could for him. While waiting for the Theater Guild's decision on his play, Wolfe traveled to Asheville and then to New York City. His finances were running low and he hesitated to turn again to his mother for help...