Word: straight
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Dirt. But they had all reckoned without the tough streak in the little Lion of Judah-and without his still-widespread popularity. Haile Selassie flew straight for the airstrip in Asmara in Ethiopia's Red Sea state of Eritrea, which was still under command of a loyal general. As his plane grew nearer, the plotters' fortunes began to wane. They could not even secure control of all Addis Ababa, and shells whistled into the center of town from loyalist army posts. In frustration, the rebels shot a few government officials they had captured and then fled into...
...Neiman clerks, working on commission as well as salary, can earn up to $25,000 a year. In return Marcus demands that they be unfailingly polite no matter how uncouth the customer may seem. He likes to remind them of the cotton-smocked girl who once came in straight off her father's farm. Papa had just struck oil, and Daughter spent $10,000 to outfit herself in style, including shoes for her bare feet...
Village of the Damned. In one of the neatest little chillers since Peter Lorre went straight, an English town drops suddenly senseless, wakes to find its womenfolk unaccountably pregnant...
Bricks & Physics. Hearing of "people in Uganda who went to school in America," Legson hiked off in 1958 to learn their secret. He walked straight north across Tanganyika. Kayira had only the clothes on his back, but he survived: "Whenever I saw a house being built, I asked to carry bricks." He earned two-fifths of a cent for every 80 bricks, enough to buy bananas and to get him eventually to Mwanza on Lake Victoria in July 1959. There he worked for six months to raise money for a boat trip to Kampala. He spent $1.05 for a physics...
...Watson Rink Saturday afternoon, Ike Ikauniks' two goals and two assists gave the freshmen a 5-2 victory over Exeter. The win was the fifth straight for coach Nat Harris' sextet...