Word: builded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Only one escape was left to us-what Ordzhonikidze did when he committed suicide. I stood before the same decision. And at the end of Stalin's life I was about to be executed. Now we have changed all this. Now we want to be left alone to build...
...that Bulganin is plainly on the skids, Mikoyan is being talked of as his likely replacement for Premier. In Khrushchev's eyes, Mikoyan, the lone operator, has the merit of never having tried to build up his own party machine. The delay in pushing out Bulganin suggests that although Khrushchev has bested his rivals, he still has powerful opposition to contend with. The deadly struggle for power that began with Stalin's death four years ago is not yet ended. Who would know that better than Mikoyan...
...Minister Christian Pineau flew to Yerevan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Republic, on Turkey's eastern border. At his hotel Pineau was confronted by hundreds of French-speaking Armenians who had been lured back from France after World War II by Soviet blandishments to "come home and help build a new Armenian homeland." They greeted Pineau with tales of hardship and persecution and tearful pleas for repatriation to France. Embarrassed, Pineau backed away, but before leaving, exacted from his official hosts a promise that there would be no reprisals against the demonstrators. Because of engine trouble, his plane...
...multiplication of bureaucrats does not make it easier to get things done, but harder. To justify their jobs, bureaucrats proliferate their duties. One intrepid Italian insists that he had to fill out pounds of forms, in triplicate, for the files of nine different government offices, just to build a house. An Italian soldier, wounded in 1943 and certified in 1946 as 50% disabled, finally got on the pension rolls last month (with no retroactive pay). A businessman who filed a tax refund claim six years ago received the acknowledgment last week; he does not expect the refund for years. People...
...This is a building that we believe may exert an influence on the office of the future, perhaps even on the city of the future." says Connecticut General's President Frazar Wilde. And not without reason. For as industry shifts to the countryside, it can build with a streamlined efficiency almost impossible in the interlocking gridiron of big-city interests. Connecticut General, designed by the Manhattan office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is a prime example of the best in large-scale planning, functional building and site development...