Word: worked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts' youthful Jack Kennedy, still the fustest-and fastest-running Democrat, busied himself flushing delegates' votes in the canebrakes of Louisiana, went north to work his way through Wisconsin and Illinois, and headed toward heavy speaking dates in California two weeks hence. Missouri's Stuart Symington was marching through Georgia, booked solidly ahead for shooting matches from Massachusetts to Florida over the next weeks. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey scored an unexpected bull's-eye with the United Auto Workers in Atlantic City, pushed on to Denver. In Dallas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who customarily presides...
Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington stuck closely to one surefire issue-the steel strike. (The U.A.W. has given $1,000,000 to help the steel strikers.) Said Symington: "There was no national emergency with hundreds of thousands of people out of work, eating out of their savings, worrying about their future. The national emergency came after the great corporations had liquidated their inventories." Symington was greeted with warm applause...
Marshall was weary at war's end, 64 and anxious to settle down at his stately home in Leesburg, Va., where he could be with his wife Katherine (his first wife, whom he married in 1902, died of heart disease in 1927), and where he could work in his vegetable garden, read his favorite books-about Stonewall Jackson, Benjamin Franklin and Robert E. Lee. "We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness," said he in his valedictory. "This course has failed us utterly...
...State Department told it, Missouri-born Russell A. Langelle, 37, security officer in charge of the Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, rode city bus No. 107 to work as usual one chilly morning last week, got off about 9 o'clock at the corner of Chaikovskovo Street and Vorovskovo Street, a block from his office. Suddenly, in the very best Eric Ambler fashion, five civilianclad men closed in around him, efficiently pinned his arms, covered his mouth, hauled him into a nearby alley where waited a Zim, the Buick-copied car used by junior Red officials...
...ploy didn't work. Langelle refused to talk about his embassy work. The Russian., threatened him with what the official U.S. note of protest politely called "physical violence," warned him that harm could come to his wife Miriam and their three small children. At length the Russians promised him money if he would spy on U.S. diplomats. After an hour and 45 minutes of this, the Russians gave up, let him loose at the corner where they captured...