Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bald Fact. In the main, U.S. military leaders were making no plans to leap in and take over British positions and obligations around the world. In most key areas, the U.S. has capabilities that do not need reinforcement. The U.S. undoubtedly will have to shift some forces to correct imbalances resulting from the new British program. But those will be mostly intertheater shifts and probably will not require additional overseas troop shipments. As for brush wars of the Korea type, the U.S. long ago made its decision entirely apart from anything the British might say or do: such wars will...
...Bald Terms. Nasser was plainly more cocky than he had been last fall. There was now no mention of the U.N.'s six principles he had accepted then, in particular the provision that the canal be "insulated from the politics of any nation." Compensation for the old company's stockholders was referred to "arbitration," in which Nasser could be expected to bring counter-claims for war damages. Though there were polite thanks for the U.N.'s help in clearing the canal and promises of "continued cooperation" with users, the plan stated in all but bald terms that...
...such deft vignettes, CBS's See It Now presented "Poland, 1957," an engrossing, hour-long documentary on the Communist satellite since it gained a limited amount of freedom from Russia last year. Occasionally, the brisk pace was slowed to a walk, as when Poland's brooding, egg-bald Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz deadpanned noncommittal answers to Correspondent Daniel Schorr's questions. But for the most part the pictures, the reporting, and the narration by Edward R. Murrow succeeded in projecting their intended impression of "a nation on a tightrope," still unsure about its new status. "The typical Polish...
...plan is being ramrodded by energetic, bottle-bald Maurice Lemaire, 61, State Secretary for Industry, who gained fame by his postwar reconstruction of the French National Railroads, which he bossed from 1946 to 1949. Just back from an on-the-sand survey, Lemaire optimistically figures that the Sahara can produce at a rate of 3,500,000 bbl. a year for France by 1958, although there are now only three wells. To meet that short-range goal, the Cabinet last week allocated $6,000,000 to build two 150-mile, 10 in. pipelines from the oilfields at Hassi-Messaoud...
Most of the time bald, myopic, barrel-chested, spindly-legged Pnin wrestles mirthfully with his fate even though he loses most of the falls. Bound for a lecture date, he blithely takes the wrong train after having painstakingly consulted an out-of-date timetable. Bent on being a sports-minded pal to a schoolboy visitor, he remarks chummily that the first description of tennis in Russian literature "is found in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's novel, and is related to year 1875." Whenever Pnin stops talking, Novelist Nabokov steps in with waspish, high-spirited asides on U.S. higher education, culture...