Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscure U.S. Senator told a Wheeling (W. Va.) audience that he had a list of 205 Communists employed by the State Department. With that, Joe McCarthy launched one of the most spectacular political voyages in U.S. history. He charged often, proved seldom, never named his 205; in fact, he insisted he had said 57. But, because he had a sensitive issue, he became a big man. His bitterest foes were his best friends; Truman & Co. inflated his sails by exaggerating his importance...
EDGAR YOUNG Big Stone Gap, Va...
...voyage to the bottom of the Atlantic was uneventful enough to satisfy the most apprehensive bystander. Every 30 minutes, Lieut. Commander Georges Houot and Engineer Pierre-Henri Willm reported by an ultrasonic signaling device: "Tout va bien" (all is well). At 3:23 p.m. a patrolling airplane saw the yellow steel hull break above the surface...
...Night of the Hunter has some of the tension of Marie Belloc Lowndes' famed story of a psychopathic killer, The Lodger, plus a sequence of runaway river life that recalls the Injun Joe passages of Mark Twain. Davis Grubb, 34, was himself born in Moundsville, W. Va., and named after a grandfather who captained a steamboat on the Ohio. Next for Author Grubb's story: a film version by Producer Paul Gregory (Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), with Charles Laughton directing...
Exit. In Moundsville, W. Va., five prisoners escaped from Camp Fair Chance during its first week of operation...