Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...radio escaped, no television set was free of the hoarse exhortations and stylized imprecations of eager candidates. Professional and earnest amateur, statesman and anxious hoddypoll, they were shoving and jostling for the last, few, fatal votes from the indifferent and the uncertain...
Resplendent in the white uniform of the commander in chief of the Spanish air force, pudgy Generalissimo Francisco Franco set off fortnight ago on a tour of West Africa and the Canary Islands. In Morocco he watched heavily robed native dancers, graciously accepted from Moroccan notables the traditional gift of two camels. At Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canaries, the generalissimo gave an encouraging speech to officers of the local Spanish garrison, told them that the world was beginning to recognize the "reality" of Spain's cause...
...month-old agreement between the Roman Catholic bishops of Poland and the Communist Polish government broke down last week. In a recent letter to President Boleslaw Bierut, just made public, Primate Archbishop Stefan Wyszynski and Adam Cardinal Sapieha set forth a long list of grievances accumulated since the peace pact was signed...
...serve, whacked his own two-handed forehand drives into the far corners and outguessed Kramer in nearly every rally. It was all over in less than an hour. Score: 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Explained a somewhat surprised Kramer: "Pancho knocked me down in the first set and never let me get off the floor." Pancho, who gets only a salary, to Kramer's 25% of the gate and Gussie's 30%, had a simpler explanation: "I'm hongry...
...record: 226 chances in 43 games set by the Athletics' Eddie Joost...