Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exhilaration in the Valleys. It was a year to alter the riverbanks of history. A cease-fire without victory quieted Korea, but it was still the quiet of the dormant volcano. Mankind's greatest tyrant died; his death touched off a lupine scuffle for succession in the Kremlin and opened a new and unpredictable era for the tyranny Joseph Stalin fixed on half the globe. Radioactive dust particles borne east in a cloud from Siberia told the outside world that Russia, too, had plumbed the secret of the thermonuclear bomb and could now visit instantaneous death on the obscurest...
...Eisenhower's atomic pool proposal, which Adenauer believes "may well be the beginning of real understanding between East and West." Stalin's death, he says, was "not a factor of major importance." It did not increase the chances for peace. "Stalin had the power and prestige to alter the course of Kremlin foreign policy. His successors have...
...Pope obviously cannot steer the bark of St. Peter alone. It is false to assume that he only has to say something into a speaking tube to alter course or speed. The officers and the crew, while disciplined and obedient, have views of their own that the man on the bridge cannot ignore. The Pope's advisers reflect all shadings of opinion. Among notable men around the Pope...
...with no less than 22 variations on the same theme. Some of them: ¶ Hondo (Warner Bros.) is a Shane-type hero played by John Wayne. Says Producer Robert Fellows: "There is a reminder of Shane in this picture, but it is . . . just a coincidence. However, we purposely did alter the horse-opera formula a little. It is dangerous to monkey with westerns . . . Every time someone has taken too great liberties . . . they have fallen flat on their face." ¶ The Command (Warner Bros.) features Guy Madison as a U.S. Army medical officer who takes command of a cavalry regiment...
Final confirmation of his status in the Nobel nominations will come tomorrow. It is unlikely the Academy will alter its choice although it is theoretically possible. Lipmann and Krebs are the only designated laureates. This year's award is worth 170,000 crowns ($31,600), and will be split between...