Word: adds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ladies' wrist watches that look nice but tend to stop frequently." An old missile hand at Cape Canaveral turned to a football figure. The Russians, said he, are now leading in moon shots by 7 to 6-they have converted after the touchdown. He did not need to add that, operationally speaking, missilery is perhaps the one game where peace and safety can be lost to a one-point lead...
...Meekly, they wrote to him at his home in Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...
Later the same week, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest will open, and both will be presented during the first month. In the fifth week, the group will add George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, followed by Othello and Sam and Bella Spewack's Boy Meets Girl...
...add that I have been delighted to find so many men like yourself who, in a period known to many critics as the Age of Conformity, have been eager to experiment with a new idea. I am grateful to you for this expression of independence and genuine interest. Sincerely yours, John M Bullitt Master Quincy House
...world learned when Stalin put forth his 1936 model constitution and followed it with the bloody purges of 1936-38, it is not Soviet theory but practice that counts. Stalin's successors have relaxed police surveillance, and the changes now put in black and white add up to a substantial strengthening of legal security for the individual in the Soviet Union. Yet the Communist Party remains the supreme arbiter in Soviet society...