Word: departed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved to write a parody of the fickle itinerary. Sample: "11 a.m., previously unscheduled press conference in airport lounge. Kefauver drops bombshell. No ime to file. 12, rally in phone booth at local drugstore . . . Note-due to time changes and miscalculations by Kefauver staff, group is scheduled to depart Yakima Defore arrival there...
...memorable order: "Hold your hats, boys; here we go." His destroyers headed for the enemy at flank speed, launched their torpedoes, turned hard to starboard. Both Japanese ships exploded, and Burke wheeled to face three more enemy destroyers just arriving. The newcomers saw what had happened and decided to depart -hastily. They were not fast enough; Burke fell on the rear enemy destroyer and sent it under with gunfire...
Freedom to Go. "Technically the Immigration Service was not wrong to let the sailors depart," said the International Rescue Committee's Angier Biddle Duke, "but humanly this handling was a mess." Welfare workers thought that Immigration should have stalled the Russian de parture on a pretext, e.g., the Russians had not made out income tax returns, so that the U.S. could find out whether they were victims of coercion. Immigration replied that freedom for an alien to go home is one of the freedoms of the U.S., and that the Russians had not complained of coercion...
...expect, then, that any new majority-minority political grouping will develop around a different interpretation of America's relations with the rest of the world. In this sense it is likely to depart even more sharply from its immediate predecessor than the three which we have already examined...
...unusual factors are working in the committee's favor. First, Cambridge has a strong traditional appeal which makes even prosperous residents especially reluctant to depart. Second, Cambridge's biggest industry--education--is so deeply committed to the city that ia cannot consider emigration...