Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...advocate a third party, but a coalition of voters with common convictions, men and women of both major parties joined together under a new banner, balanced against the remaining left wing of the Democratic Party...
...case dragging back and forth through the courts for twelve years after he was sentenced to death. His major appeals have revolved around the disputed, 2,000-page transcript of his 1948 trial. Court Reporter Ernest Perry died of a heart attack when he had finished transcribing only one-third of his shorthand notes, and his death, plus an error on the part of Judge Fricke, threw the case into a legal limbo...
...McCartan grew up ignorant of big-league hockey and its heroes. In his home town of St. Paul there were no pro teams near by, he explains, and "most of us didn't know the league existed." Besides, McCartan was more interested in baseball, developed into a fine third baseman ("I could always use the glove pretty well"), earned All-America honors at Minnesota and a tryout with the Washington Senators. He started playing goalie in ice-lot hockey only because the regular goalie once failed to show up for a game. His baseball still shows in his hockey...
...with a symmetrical gush of flame and climbed into the morning sky. Above the clouds, the second-stage rocket, the Able part of the act, took over and burned as scheduled. Unseen in space, four paddle-batteries sprang into position. At an altitude of 300 miles, the solid-propellant third stage fired and pushed its speed to 24,869 m.p.h...
...Vienna, Alex King is too savvy not to know that his brand of nonconformity is a hotter commercial item right now than togetherness. Before Mine Enemy grows weeks older (it just appeared in a paperback edition), the royalties from that book alone will cross the $100,000 mark. The third volume of King's memoirs is under way, and will contain no anecdotes ("It is about me"). Perhaps he has been wounded by a recent sally. "I notice," said a fellow wit, "that you are not going to ruin your autobiography by putting your life into...