Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive through the thickly populated Kikuyu reserve, where shaven-headed Kikuyu women stagger under headloads that would shatter the spines of pack mules, and the closely clustered thatched mud huts look like shaggy beehives. Then you come to the edge of the escarpment, and the Rift Valley lies below you like a giant frying pan. Over to the right, the Aberdare range begins to loom, blue and smoky, and that's where the Mau Mau gangs lurk, and strike from. There are no east-west roads across the Aberdares. You have to go round them. And that...
...downstate Illinois, traditionally Republican, the Korean war ranks well above farm policy as an issue. Said a downstate Republican last week: "In the rural areas, just one boy killed or injured out of a church congregation will stagger the whole congregation." Downstate farmers will give Ike more than the lackluster support they gave Dewey in 1948, but many of them still feel that the general has been too "gentlemanly" and has not pounded hard enough at "the blunders that led to Korea...
Smallwood's assignment would stagger any ordinary salesman. The bleak island of Newfoundland and the mainland territory of Labrador, which has been part of Newfoundland for nearly 200 years, are among Canada's most forbidding wildernesses. Much of the land is barren and rocky, dotted with lakes and great bogs. In its 154,734 sq. mi., an area almost as big as California, only three towns have more than 5,000 people. There is still no cross-island highway, only a narrow-gauge railroad that arcs across the island but does not touch one hamlet in ten. Newfoundlanders...
...would not seek your nomination for the presidency because the burdens of that office stagger the imagination. Its potential for good or evil now, and in the years of our lives, smothers exultation and converts vanity to prayer...
...McArthur won the fourth event, the hill & dale cross-country run (some 4,000 meters) around the West Point golf course. Captain Troy, older by six years, managed to stagger in eighth (of twelve), and gave up the lead to McArthur, 16-17. The final event, horseback riding over a 4,000-meter course and 25 jumps, was one of Troy's specialties. McArthur, a fledgling rider, finished a surprising fourth. Troy never even finished. His mount, like McArthur's, was an aged, retired Army nag borrowed from Fort Riley, Kans. because the U.S. Military Academy has none...