Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Days That Shook. In his welcoming speech at the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev had said: "The unity of our party was being built up during the years and decades. It grew and became stronger in the struggle with numerous enemies-the Trotskyites, the Bukharinites, the bourgeois nationalists and other inveterate enemies of the people . . ." But in his sensational last-day secret speech Khrushchev told the delegates that the phrase "enemies of the people" had been invented by Stalin to justify the liquidation of thousands, and that in the great purge the real Trotskyites et al. were so few in number...
Peace-and U.N. prestige-took a beating at a Security Council meeting last week. To thank Dag Hammarskjold for pulling Israel and the Arabs apart two months ago, and to maintain the momentum for peace built up by his Palestine mission, the British had cooked up a well intentioned resolution. To make it speak for East as well as West, Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon tossed in a phrase from a Russian Foreign Ministry Office pronouncement of last April expressing hope for a peaceful settlement "on a mutually acceptable basis." Obviously it was a line the Soviets thought well...
Pleasures & Palaces. In the sheikdoms and kingdoms of the Arab world, in palaces and refugee camps, he updated the Arabian Nights into Alsop's Fables. In the new palace at Jeddah ("the house that Aramco built"), guarded by blackamoors with gilded scimitars, King Saud of Saudi Arabia entertained 400 dinner guests at once, headed by little Imam Ahmed of Yemen, "who waggles his big, richly turbaned head like a teetotum in a sort of passion of politeness." While the guests drank orange pop, "a court bard, descended straight from the poetic line that sang before Agamemnon at Mycenae . . . recites...
CONRAD HILTON will put up a new hotel (his 44th, built or planned) in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, on land leased from Equitable Life Assurance Society. It will be finished in late 1958, cost $15 million, have 800 air-conditioned rooms...
...business of exporting reactors to foreign countries, the U.S. is already substantially ahead. The U.S. has built and sold one research reactor to Switzerland, has contracts to sell four more to Spain, Brazil, Japan and Italy, and is to build a full-fledged commercial reactor for Belgium. Thus the U.S. is far ahead of Russia and Britain in the sale of research reactors, and is the only nation planning to export a commercial reactor...