Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consistent has been the U.S. attitude of generosity on the peaceful atom since World War II that foreign policy critics rarely think to take it into account in assessing U.S. world position. Beginning with the Baruch Plan (sabotaged by the Russians), the U.S. has again and again offered to make the peaceful atom available to other qualified nations on almost any reasonable basis. Last week President Eisenhower took one more unprecedented step in the same direction by authorizing the release of 88,000 Ibs. of uranium 235 for long-range power development and research in the U.S. and abroad...
...Monstrous Pyre. Since October 1949, when the Chinese Communists officially set up the Chinese People's Republic, Hsiao Mieh, by the account of Red China's press, has been written officially against the names of millions of Chinese. Foreign specialists, carefully sifting reports from refugees and other sources, estimate that at least 20 million Chinese have been deprived of existence, done away with, or otherwise disposed of. This does not include 23 million believed to be held in forced labor camps...
...Charlotte, N.C., and Houston, where druggists refuse to fill prescriptions for strangers, often have to limit regular customers to a dozen pills on account while they wait for an overdue shipment...
...massive Adams diary reveals a somewhat unhappy man. Of women he once wrote, "My attachment to them is not enthusiastic." Most people found him cold and personally unattractive. By his own account he liked a joke but was hopeless when he tried to make one, and in any case the matters that usually absorbed him were not to be joked about. He was never rich and often in debt. Tragedy came to him when his eldest son George ran into debt, got a young girl pregnant and finally committed suicide...
...Brother Paul gives an autobiographical account of Dreiser's love for his composer-brother Paul Dresser (he changed his name), and how Dreiser came to write the opening lines for his brother's best-remembered composition, now the state song of Indiana...