Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proposed for a $20,000-a-year job as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Eisenhower: Arkansas' former Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, 60, defeated last November in his bid for re-election by an eleventh-hour write-in vote of Little Rock school segregationists, hastily mobilized to squelch Moderate Hays and his gradualism...
...teen-age girls peeped out from a darkened front parlor late one night last week in the coal-grimed Rhondda Valley of South Wales. They held their breath as a policeman paused outside, rejoiced when he tramped on past the bleak rows of miners' houses. From a lighted window opposite, a man nodded curtly to signal that BBC television was closing the day's transmission with God Save the Queen...
...least 50 candidates; and there are only 36 Welsh seats in the House of Commons to contest. Hammering away at England's "colonialist" attempts at "cultural genocide" for Wales, the nationalists demand recognition of the Cymric language in the schools, faster industrialization in Wales to compensate hardscrabble valley settlements for closed-down mines, and commonwealth status...
Green Carpet. The rumble of motors was heard up the valley. The Assam Rifles came smartly to attention, and newsmen and photographers scrambled to positions in the muck as a caravan of jeeps and trucks came into sight. In the van was a station wagon that pulled up in the muddy street before a carpet of 35 green tarpaulin ground sheets leading to a thatch-roofed rest cottage...
...hair long, shunning the shaved head and braided pigtail as marks of Manchu enslavement, and took spirited noms de guerre-"Enemy-Breaking," "Rush on Foe," "Report Success." "God is the father of the generals of this army," Hung told his men. The God-worshipers swarmed down the Yangtze River valley and into Nanking, covering 1,400 miles in 27 months...