Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this ambitious hope raises the question: does Powers have the political courage--or rather, strength--to stand against the demands of many pressure groups? Last year, Mayor Hynes approved a "white paper" which called for a no-fire, no-hire policy. It has been collecting dust in his desk drawer; due to political pressure, the experiment came to naught...
...Augusta course for a few more rounds of golf before returning to Washington. He showed that neither cold nor rain nor flu nor bronchitis could stay his hand, sank a 20-ft. putt with the custom putter (a duplicate of Bobby Jones's celebrated "Calamity Jane") that White House correspondents had given him early last month. Buoyed by that shot and, at long last, by the appearance of the sun, Ike finished his vacation in high spirits, and at weeks end flew home...
...White House doctors did not. They describe his condition as a general malaise occasioned by the irritating cold...
...roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread-dark or white-now sells 97 varieties...
...House volleyball," he told himself, "the Rhodes people like jocks." The Marshall needed six thousand-word statements. Same as the Rhoes, he calculated; less sportsy and more on intellectual interests. He would write those in a minute, now back to the outside of the Fulbright forms. Then to the white Foreign Government Grants. St. Paul's rang eleven. Back to the Australian study projects... four Travel Grants; back to the Marshall essays...