Word: arid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heroes of this naval epic of World War II are the officers and men of a P.R.O. outfit stationed on a Pacific island called Tulura. Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to dream of the bounding main as they stare at the waves in the water-cooler, arid to suffer in silence one of the subtler horrors of war: Lieut. Commander Clinton T. Nash (Fred Clark), a sort of sugar-coated Queeg. This pill is secretly known, to those who have to take him. as "Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead...
When Congress sheathed the Battle-of-the-Budget economy knives arid went home, the Administration's budget woe's were far from over-in fact, they had scarcely begun. At his press conference last week, Dwight Eisenhower spoke of budget problems in the harried tone of a head of household who finds himself, soon after payday, with $365 in overdue bills and $165 in the family checking account. Said Ike, when asked what cuttable spots he might find in next year's budget: "If you could tell me that, I would have one of my hardest problems...
...despite his two-to-one controlling majority in Parliament, Kifcame Nkrumah still seemed convinced that only stern measures could weld all the tribal nations of Ghana into a unified country. Evidently shaken by last summer's anti-government demonstrations in Kumasi arid Accra, Nkrumah appointed as his Interior Minister in charge of immigration and police a squat, hoarse-voiced and flamboyant party tough named Krobo Edusei...
...news crackles out of Washington into headlines; sometimes it comes more quietly, between the hard covers of an important book. This week TIME appraises Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger's Nuclear Weapons arid Foreign Policy, a hard-hitting independent audit of the U.S.-Communist struggle. Scholar Kissinger presents a provocative array of ideas on U.S. diplomatic and military policy. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cold War & the Small...
...King's concrete accomplishments in Moscow, according to the official communique, added up to the creation of a joint Russian-Afghan trading mission, the granting to the Russians of the right to begin "disinterested" explorations for oil in the arid wastes of northern Afghanistan (a similar request by the French was rejected by the Afghans under Russian pressure in 1952) and an agreement to send more Afghan students to the U.S.S.R. for training...