Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sights set on the governorship again in 1960 and Cotton's Senate seat in 1962, Powell plainly wanted the state to see who was heading the parade. Just as plainly, if anything should go wrong with the Nixon vote in New Hampshire, the state could look forward to the biggest pile-up since a freight train hit Barnum & Bailey's "Jumbo...
...sandy alkali flat and called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply of its own. To get their water, Teviston people had to go to nearby Pixley or Earlimart and haul it back in battered milk cans and oil drums. They measured their status by the number of cans and drums that they could acquire...
...issued a warning of trouble to come. "The hour of testing has arrived. The aliens will try to install a new regime that will be no change from the old . . . They will kill if Congolese are not careful. From the 18th to the 31st of December, you will immediately go home every night. Don't sleep too deeply. If your leaders are arrested, abandon worldly goods and homes and become prisoners with your wives and children. We are determined to sacrifice everything if we do not acquire independence in January...
...days when imperial Japan was running its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, it drafted Koreans for forced labor in Japan. These Koreans and their children, more than 600,000 strong, have been there ever since. Many of them want to go home, and the Japanese, who have no love for Koreans, would like to be rid of them. South Korea's strong-minded President Syngman Rhee, who once underwent torture at Japanese behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason...
...mild heart attack. But when Quasimodo, 58, took Liliana to Stockholm with him earlier this month for the Nobel ceremonies, Maria, 44, apparently viewed it as the last straw. Last week, taking a short recess from her dancing school, she was threatening a legal separation (Italy doesn't go in much for divorce...