Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempting to add up the credits-and the debits-of the Khrushchev trip, no one could arrive at a flat sum. The West has many times before received promises from Communism and seen them broken without the blinking of an eye. This time, if the Soviet leader really meant what he said, it appeared that at least some few forward steps had been taken toward creating a peaceful atmosphere. But if, on the other hand, all the talk was just more Communist bunkum, then in terms of world hopes raised and dashed, the Khrushchev trip could only be a fiasco...
Stage-Struclc. In Broken Bow, Neb., while participating in an Old West celebration, Banker Thomas T. Varney Jr. fired blanks enthusiastically at fleeing make-believe robbers, discovered too late that the shells were loaded with birdshot, sent one of his victims a new hat, the other an air pillow...
...cockpit with a reassuring wave to the old Hurricane circling overhead, Pilot Maguire apologized to the cricketers for damaging their wicket, and joined them at tea in the pavilion. Tea concluded, the game was resumed. Pushed off the playing field, its propeller, undercarriage and one wing broken, Spitfire Sugar Love rested at last on the sidelines-a silent spectator of the way of life it had helped to preserve...
...Broken-Hearted Melody (Mercury). Songstress Sarah Vaughan, as chirpy as a sparrow, wonders whatever happened to "the lips I love to kiss." The warble alone could have driven him away...
...integrated Rouge plant, expects to be hit by early December. This week at his press conference President Eisenhower said he was "getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse." Free collective bargaining, added Ike, "the logical recourse of a free people in settling industrial disputes, has apparently broken down." The President strongly suggested that the Administration would now step in if labor and management failed to reach agreement...