Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petals & Kisses. As the barge plied upriver, hundreds of shikaras (gondolas) milled around; their jampacked passengers wanted a good look, and they pelted Nehru with flower petals. Police in speedboats dashed back & forth, keeping shikaras at safe distance...
...immediate 10% reduction in the controlled price of bread, in answer to Communist alarm cries that as a result of the lira's slump prices would rise; and 2) the purchase in Washington of a little more than $100 million worth of gold (100 tons) to back the lira...
...Back in New Delhi at week's end, Nehru said that the U.S.S.R.'s atomic discovery may help prevent war. "The more terrible the dangers of war," Nehru explained, "the more the people should see the folly of it and avoid it. But people do not always behave logically, of course...
Ambassador Lewis Douglas was back in London after the dollar talks, minus the patch he has worn over his left eye since it was snagged by a wind-blown salmon hook last April. He paused on the front stoop of the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square to exchange grave greetings with an old family retainer named Reggie...
Justice William O. Douglas, 50, enjoying one last ride in Washington's Cascade Mountains before going back to work at the Supreme Court, stopped to tighten a slipping saddle girth. When he tried to remount, the horse reared, threw him and rolled on him; then Douglas slid and sprawled down 50 feet of rocky slope. Injuries: 13 broken ribs and a puncture of one lung...