Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor disputes now rejected by the National Labor Relations Board, thus strengthening the Senate's halfway attempt to solve the "no man's land" problem. ¶ Accepted the House's stronger ban on blackmail picketing, but beat down a severe House section that would effectively prevent almost all picketing in advance of a plant's NLRB election...
...drums, grabs his black-hosed, pony-tailed beatchick and cuts out. Lately, beatniks in increasing numbers have been cutting out of the incipient squareness of San Francisco and swinging in the shabby little Los Angeles beach community of Venice. There last week the regular inhabitants were howling in protest almost loud enough to drown out the thump of the bongos...
...prompted its intervention in the Korean war: an obsession with the need for friendly, or, at worst, safely neutral buffer states on all its borders. With luck the Chinese could hope to topple Phoui's government and force a more sympathetic regime into power; more modestly, they could almost certainly count on occupying Laos' northern provinces, thus creating a "sanitized" zone on China's southern frontier...
...early independence. But then Haji Mohammed Hussein, an oldtime nationalist rabble-rouser whose oratory once made Somalis whip off their scarves in frenzy and fling them into the air, arrived back in Mogadiscio from four years' self-imposed exile as one of Nasser's Cairo broadcasters. Almost at once Haji Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland, because he feared his Hawiya tribe would be swamped in a state that brought 3,000,000 Somalis together...
...Fuchs, 47, onetime head of the theoretical physics department at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, who slipped atom-bomb secrets to Russian agents, was caught and imprisoned in 1950. Released 2½ months ago, Fuchs flew to East Berlin, was made a citizen of East Germany almost as soon as the wheels hit the runway...