Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Shoes in Cairo. "Cacoola," as it is locally known, was flooding Egypt like a second life-giving Nile. Egyptians, barred by Moslem law from alcoholic refreshments, used to buy sickly sweet, dirty concoctions from street vendors. Now they are enthusiastically consuming nearly 350 million cool, clean Cokes a year. Barely five years after Cacoola appeared in Egypt, the country is dotted with shiny red coolers, many of them presided over by Egypt's oldtime ice merchants who, thanks to the raised living standard caused by this minor economic revolution, now wear shoes for the first time in human memory...
Though the Democrats benefited by some such mistakes, the incumbent Republicans got 85% of the votes, many of them acquired by cheating. Next Sunday Turkey will have its second free, and perhaps its first fair election. The Democrats refused to take part until a new law guaranteed them observers at every polling place. The Republicans will probably win again-by a reduced majority...
...inning at Parque Delta, home grounds of the Mexico City baseball team Azules de Vera Cruz; the Torreón Laguneros were leading the Azules 3 to 1. Torreón's star Negro shortstop, 26-year-old Othello Renfroe of Jacksonville, Fla., rapped a slow roller to second base and tried to beat the throw to first. Umpire Ramón Montes de Oca, 65, cried "Fuera!" (out). In such a situation Shortstop Renfroe, like another celebrated Othello, found himself little blest with the soft phrase of peace...
...noisy the cops arrested him as a drunk, locked him up for six hours, let him out when he sobered up. Said the husky, family-man governor, father of five: "I just did some drinking like any other visitor. I guess I had too much." On second, sober thought, he told reporters that there was "something mysterious about the whole thing," assured the A.P. in his home state, by long distance, that the story had been "grossly exaggerated...
Bandleader Xavier Cugat, 50, called in the press in Boston, announced that he would marry his band's songstress, Abbe Lane, 18, if he ever gets a divorce from his second wife. Then he turned to his fiancee and said gently: "Go down to your mother and take a nap before the show. Rest...