Word: upping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In his letter of resignation to his miners, John L. Lewis, two months short of 80, summed up his life's, work in what were his least controversial words. "I shall hope," he said simply, "that each of you will believe that through the years I have been faithful...
For years, some of Teviston's leaders dreamed of digging a deep well and creating a water district of their own, but cash and hope were scarce. Then, five years ago, Field Hand James Morning, Farmer John Williams and Missionary Baptist Preacher Robert Daniels began talking up the idea...
Down with Egoism! To French dismay, every other NATO member lined up behind the U.S. in defense of integration. Even though De Gaulle has assiduously courted the West Germans, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss pointedly condemned "special egoistic interests within NATO." And many of the French themselves made it plain...
Even when the old bitterness subsided after World War I, France's traditional anticlericalism-a strain that runs from Voltaire to Sartre-remained just below the surface. In 1945, when De Gaulle set up his postwar government, he, though himself a devout Catholic communicant, curtly withdrew the wartime subsidies...
The crumbling walls of its Angevin castle still keep guard over Lundy's only landing place, whence the medieval barons De Marisco once dispatched their men to raid the coast of England. It was from Lundy that the elegant 17th century pirate "Admiral" Nutt defied the Royal Navy; where...