Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers and machine-shop foremen, a maneuver he brought off with the hearty air of the big boss at the annual company outing, made up for his rival's helicopter by singing second bass in a quartet with three Yale undergraduates at major public appearances. They sang the Whiffenpoof Song, though some of his backers thought he should shush his Yale connections. He pronounced Bowles (Yale '24) the philosopher of leftism, Senator Brien McMahon (Yale LL.B. '27) the spokesman, and Benton...
...stage was set for the final battle in the "police action" in Korea. This week General Douglas MacArthur broadcast his second ultimatum to the North Koreans: "I, as the United Nations Commander in Chief, for the last time call upon you and the forces under your command, in whatever part of Korea situated, forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." MacArthur was ready to hit the Communists above the 38th parallel with another coordinated air-sea-ground offensive...
Jones pulled back but decided to go in for a second try, hoping to lift the pilot out of his foxhole with a sling. "I was hovering over the pilot with the hoist sling down," Jones reported later, "but he gave me a frantic wave-off, as small arms fire opened up all around us . . . I heard bullets hitting the helicopter and gas fumes began to fill the cockpit ... I think he knew that he was done for and didn't want us to get it too. He just wouldn't take the sling...
Last week, at Henry's insistence, Sark trooped to the polls for the second election in its history. Henry himself had whipped up a New Brigade Party, consisting largely of his wife and various employees at the local Stock's Hotel, to oppose the old-guard deputies. "It's a disgrace, a perfect disgrace," muttered one oldtimer, "holding the island up to ridicule." In the local greystone schoolhouse (which doubles as the parliament chamber), he and 190-odd other voters of Sark soon made their indignation evident on the ballot. Not one of Henry Head...
Just at noon on the day after elections, the vote count began in Rio's Hotel dos Estrangeiros. Electoral Board No. 13 opened the first presidential ballots. The judge looked at the first ballot and intoned: "The first vote is for Getulio Vargas." The second, third and fourth ballots were also for Vargas. Not until the fifth ballot did Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes score. The first vote for Christiano Machado, the government's candidate, was recorded even later...