Word: beginninges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven days after President Eisenhower proposed a one-year suspension of U.S. nuclear-weapons tests, Nikita Khrushchev accepted the U.S. terms: high-level political talks, beginning Oct. 31, on a foolproof world network of listening posts to detect any nuclear explosions.
With the big-brand companies moving in, fancy foods are expected to crack into the resistance area where they now must grub for sales-the South, the Midwest (except Chicago) and small towns all over. Virtually all fancy-food sales are confined to big cities; 60% come within a 300...
Byzantine Bureaucracy. Says Moorehead about the struggles that preceded Russia's short-lived Constituent Assembly, when democracy went down to the whistles and catcalls of the Bolsheviks: "The field of action was now beginning to clarify itself somewhat in the manner of one of those Shakespearean battlefields where the...
Last month's trials established Columbia as the early favorite, but in the subsequent New York Yacht Club cruise, old Vim beat the new boats handsomely. Then last week, Weatherly came alive, beat both Vim and Columbia. The trials ended with each of the three leaders having beaten the...
Penance Underground. The custom gained added impetus from the preaching of the Franciscan missionaries, who strongly emphasized the sufferings of Christ's passion in their teachings, and permitted the practice of self-scourging as an act of devotion. When the Franciscans were withdrawn at the close of the 18th...