Word: opened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, when Kennedy became an open candidate, he and Sorenson began to select the best advocates in each state, and the advance men-O'Brien, O'Donnell, Wallace, and Bob and Ted Kennedy -took to the road to recruit the local organizations. Based in Chicago, Raskin carried the Kennedy argument from Ohio to Oregon. At the time of the Hyannis Port meeting, there was a trusted lieutenant in every state, and the beginnings of a full-fledged organization in all of the key primary states-Wisconsin, Oregon, West Virginia, Nebraska, Indiana and New Hampshire...
...federation would have to be done later by a special commission headed by Lord Monckton, Macmillan departed from a thoroughly confused Nyasaland for the Union of South Africa, where a few Africans in the streets tried to attract his attention with homemade placards: MONTY CLOSED HIS EYES OPEN YOURS, MAC! Asked whether he would see any "non-white leaders," he blandly declared that this would be up to "my hosts." Finally, at a reception given by the mayor of Johannesburg, Macmillan found something to say that fitted in with what he considered a proper discretion. Looking out over a park...
...still enthusiastically rebellious, the Boys of '28 launched outright revoluton in April. They seized Dictator Gómez' Miraflores Palace (Gómez was away), grabbed all the guns they could find. They charged up the street toward San Carlos Barracks, where a confederate was supposed to fling open the gates and let them in. But the chief of the military forces arrived before the rebels, barred the gates and organized a stout defense. For the first time in his life, Rebel Betancourt fired a rifle. It was an ancient German weapon with a brutal kick. When...
...apron, outworking her helpers, she hacks out a foundation, cuts timber, makes cement blocks, installs plumbing. In between, she keeps the children busy planting gardens, teaches adults how to read, write, cook and stay healthy, and every so often breaks out her guitar for singing and dancing. "I open their eyes," says she. "Then if they won't follow my advice, it's their fault if their children grow up to be bandits...
...film starts to roll, nine shiny black Mercedes limousines roll into sight in sober single file. Whose funeral? Germany's? They roll up to an elegant hotel. Nine doors fly open, and out step nine millionaires in nine black Homburg hats. After a long day in the board room, the directors of the Insulating Materials Cartel-a cover name for a munitions trust-hurry off in sober single file to spend a long night in the bedroom...