Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Republican candidates well know that, since the day of Roosevelt, they have to carry downstate Illinois by big margins to offset the Democratic majorities ground out by Jake Arvey's Chicago machine.* With spellbinding oratory, Republican Dirksen banged away at Communism, Acheson, inflation and wasteful foreign programs. "Lenin said, 'Someday we are going to force the U.S. to spend itself into destruction,' " cried Dirksen. "In the name of God, what are we doing? When will we wake...
...books requiring public schools to read pupils five verses of the Old Testament each day, he whistled up his secularist cohorts to the attack. A suit against the state was duly filed by Mrs. Anna Klein, as mother of a student, and Donald Doremus, as a taxpayer, on the ground that the law was unconstitutional (TIME...
...Robert Vermillion of the United Press: "It took the Communists by surprise; it took me by surprise too ... I was the last man to jump from the first plane . . . and anticipated no traffic jam in the air. But I ran into one anyway. About 20 feet above the ground, a paratrooper falling faster than I dropped into my parachute canopy and collapsed it around my shoulders. As a result I plunged the last 20 feet without any help from the parachute." Traffic victim Vermillion wrote his story, was evacuated to Japan with a broken ankle...
...blaze, discovered shortly after 1:30 a.m. by night watchman Michael J. Lyons, was confined entirely to the laundry room on the ground floor. Most of the loss was to articles of clothing and towels, some of which were scheduled to be used after today's game with Dartmouth...
...course of the game did the Crimson offense cross the enemy 20 yard line. This failure was not necessarily due to the lack of hard running, but rather to sloppy ball handling. Crimson backs were frequently trapped behind the line, and on other occasions when they did reach open ground, the ball looked like a Mexican jumping bean...