Word: hunt
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Palm Beach for a session on Cabinetmaking. His instructions were succinct: "I want to get the best men I can for these Cabinet jobs, and I don't care if they are Democrats, Republicans or Igorots." Kennedy's lieutenants thereupon set forth on the great man hunt. It was a long, laborious and tedious process, checking out the past performances and future potentialities of dozens of men. There were grumblings that Kennedy was vacillating and taking a long time with the job.* But when he fed out the last of his Cabinet choices last week, there was widespread...
Defiant Orphans. In Algiers and Oran and Bóne, 127 Moslems died and hundreds more were wounded. European gangs joined in the hunt and dropped stray Moslems with pistols and iron bars. But still the green-and-white flags waved, and the Moslem crowds, scattered by police charges, re-formed as soon as the police withdrew. From rooftops and windows, Moslem women cheered on their men with high-pitched cries of "Yu! Yu! Yu!" One woman shouted at a group of paratroops: "Cowards! You were thrown out of Indo-China, you were thrown out of Tunisia, you were thrown...
...sports, will soon get his doctor's degree from the University of Munich in the fresh-air field of archaeology - which is also the lifelong hobby of Birgitta's grandfather, Sweden's King Gustaf. Later, invited to Sweden for a royal elk hunt, the Prince succeeded in bagging more attractive quarry. In Stockholm, Birgitta's widowed mother, Princess Sibylla, announced the royal engagement last week. Johann Georg may want to brush up on his fencing; only four days before the betrothal, Birgitta won a Swedish national fencing crown...
...Many city designers relegate the planning of sensuous effects of a city to other professions," Kevin Lynch, a professor at M.I.T., charged last night at Hunt Lecture Hall...
...such targets as workers' housing to cripple Germany. Asked to study Cherwell's statistics, Tizard found the damage estimate five times too high. But he got nowhere. Churchill's intimate won a backstairs Cabinet fight that had "the faint but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt." Labeled a defeatist, Tizard was forced to sit out the rest of the war as president of Oxford's Magdalen College...