Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time is the most valuable thing in life, and I don't want to waste it," he said once. Feeling a stab of pain on the eve of his latest mission to Europe (see The Administration), he told a close friend: "If it isn't cancer, then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then any additional discomfort doesn't fundamentally matter anyway...
...Georgia's rural woolhats, led by U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell of Winder (pop. 4,604), marched on Atlanta (pop. 510,000) to try to scare city moderates out of complying with a certain-to-come federal integration order. "I want to invite the people of Atlanta back into Georgia!" cried pone-shaped Politician-Publisher Roy V. Harris. "Our greatest battle is against the quislings...
...most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back to me." Néfissa's answer to those who clutched at her arms and clothing: "Vote for me, and I will...
...British insist that they cannot understand just what "the Maldivians are up to." Replied a Maldivian spokesman: "We do not want to be involved in world controversies...
...stern taskmaster. Kiphuth demands all-out effort, is apt to roar at a swimmer dawdling through his paces: "If you want to take a bath, get a cake of soap." During a hopping exercise, the coach scowled scornfully at a boy who had twisted an ankle, barked: "Get up and hop on the good one." But his swimmers like him. Says one: "A wishy-washy coach who sympathizes with you is no damn good...