Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mercer or the Charleston of the Roaring '20s. Well, if you weren't what we call a square, you would have had your "teenage fun" with these artists. It was your generation (with all respect) that broke away from the slow ballroom dance to the faster jitterbug, big apple, Charleston...
...Education and Labor Committee during the past six weeks, I must say that the most honest and accurate reporting which has appeared anywhere in the press is that which I have read in the last two issues of TIME. In my opinion, this is a classic example of a "big" story which never became "news" in the daily press, but which finally saw print in your journal...
...known that he was planning to meet Khrushchev's plane when it arrives in mid-September, though Khrushchev is not technically chief of the Soviet state,*and protocol does not demand welcome by the President. Ike also made it known that he was reserving time for a possible Big Four summit meeting in the fall...
...Khrushchev brought on the Berlin crisis back in November 1958 to force the West to a summit meeting, his ploy had worked: without yielding the West any concession on Berlin except postponement, he had gained a prize that he may have wanted more than a summit meeting: a Big Two meeting, viewed in Soviet policy as a step toward the basic goal of breaking up the U.S.'s alliances in Europe and Asia...
...East-West exchanges lay with the West. With nine satellites put into orbit around the earth, the U.S. had come a long way since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957. And last week came the news of two more big strides in space-military technology: a 142-lb. paddle-wheel satellite that uses solar energy to power its transmitters and a monitoring system capable of detecting and tracking missile and rocket firings far beyond the range of the keenest-eyed radar (see SCIENCE...