Word: anna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York last week, Anna Kethly, a Minister of State in the eight-day government of Premier Imre Nagy, reported that Nagy, now in a Rumanian prison, will probably be brought back to Budapest shortly for trial. Two other ministers in Nagy's Cabinet have already been brought back and lodged in Fo Utca Prison, Miss Kethly said, and their trial presumably will provide the backdrop for Nagy's. Said Anna Kethly: "The Prime Minister is under great pressure to confess. A special investigation group was set up by the MVD and the AVH for this reason. Not only...
...ever made. It is the largest producer of school movies, distributes them not only in the U.S. but to 55 foreign nations. Though no moneymaker, it has as impressive a board of advisers as any corporation going-former Senator William Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, Psychologist George Stoddard, President Robert Hutchins of the Fund for the Republic, and Social Scientist Ralph Tyler. Last week it was sporting another big name: Chairman-elect Adlai E. Stevenson...
...missing motor in this case is a decent book. To be sure, the show is based on one of the most enduring, if not the better, of Eugene O'Neill's plays, Anna Christie. But even in the original play, the plot was not one of the strongest elements. It concerns a more or less reformed prostitute who, after some years spent in pursuit of her trade, returns for rest and rehabilitation to her father, the skipper of a coal-barge...
Last week, having already established a national calendar of twelve months (more or less comparable to the Gregorian) and threatening soon to put weights and measures on the metric system, Nehru's government chose to inaugurate a new decimal coinage. In place of the rupee (20?), anna (1/16 rupee) and pie (1/12 anna) of the past, the new money will consist solely of rupees and naye paise (literally: new coins) worth .01 rupees. The trouble is that for three years both sets of coins will be used at once, and since there is not always a way of translating...
Last week, as the first of 610.000,000 new coins poured into the bazaars, India's newspapers carried conversion tables with instructions on how to use them. Sample: "To make a payment of 36 naye paise, you first pay 4 annas or 25 naye paise, then pay the balance of 11 naye paise by tendering 1 anna and 9 pies...