Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good as his chances are, in California-and elsewhere, Stevenson faces his decisions on them with no joy. But as Alan Cranston, head of California's Democratic Council, says: "Adlai cannot be a reluctant candidate this time; that's like trying to be a virgin twice...
President. Moving into the Presidential Palace, he rooted out such Communists in government as had not already fled abroad. Purged unions of Red leaders, halted Red-designed land redistribution while promising to resettle land-hungry peasants in virgin territories. Pulled treasury...
...product of a different day, finds less to respect in some of Sam's methods, because "He didn't think much about the people coming along after him." Old Sam cut down most of the virgin timber on his farm, snaked it out by mules to his own sawmills, then ripped into the job of converting the land into dollars, fast and plentiful. He brought in eight tenant farmers-Joe does nicely with three farm hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion...
Premier Diem, a Roman Catholic, is a small, chunky, dark-haired man of 54 who works at a desk in Saigon surrounded by crises and a few personal things-a wooden crucifix, a picture of the Virgin, books titled Social Justice and Thoughts of Gandhi. At a youth rally on a Saigon football field last week, Diem was greeted enthusiastically by white-shirted young Vietnamese. Said he: "I promise you that by the end of the year we will have a democratic regime and a national assembly." By way of ensuring this desirable result, the ballot card photographs had been...
...were bravely decorated with fish nets, crossed oars and ships' wheels laced with flowers. As the guest of honor, a smiling widow from Britain, entered a mean little square, she looked into the eyes of a blown-up photograph of her husband bearing the inscription: "To the Holy Virgin we pray: for us, many sardines; for the wizard who gave us penicillin, glory...