Word: want
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbus. Cocky, voluble Democrat Maynard E. ("Jack") Sensenbrenner, 57, campaigned for his fourth term in the typical give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston...
...feeling. "Panama, like Egypt," he said, "could not build her own canal because she is a small nation and had to accept foreign aid. Every day the idea is gaining force that eventually Panama should regain jurisdiction." What that meant precisely, he never said, but he did not want the canal itself for Panama. Instead, he would settle for a fifty-fifty split of gross canal revenue (fiscal 1958: $83 million). Boyd touched off last week's violence by entering the Canal Zone with a Panamanian flag, a cluster of followers and photographers...
...future looked good, Birrell thought. "The big problem in Brazil is to select which opportunity you want to concentrate on. It's like being a hungry kid in a candy store. You don't know which box to pick from." Take castor oil: "It is the only lubricant for cosmic travel. That's what they call it-cosmic travel. A man wants to talk business with me. It has an incredible future...
Bullitt said he would encourages upper-classmen to move from the new building to Mather, but was not sure how he would do this. He stated last Fall that he will not force them to leave, but expected some would want to. He felt the idea of moving the men now in Clavely Hall into Mather "would make good sense...
...Harvard Student Agencies has disclosed plans to set up a "trading post" for furniture, books, and small accessories. Agency officials said they want the exchange to channel the momentous flow of furniture each spring and fall...