Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Presumably Murphy might yet promise withdrawal of U.S. forces at a given future date if all sides get together, name a candidate, call off the three-month strike, and let the country return to normal. Against that day, which President Eisenhower again promised last week "just as soon as the U.N. can act effectively to ensure the independence and integrity" of Lebanon, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold expanded his Observers Group to 200 and laid plans to increase the number of border watchers to at least 1,000. Said Murphy: "We are making progress. I think there is a good possibility...
...welcomed Khrushchev's proposal for a summit meeting on the Middle East-even though in the first Russian proposal for five-power talks there was no mention of inviting any Arab country. Said Nasser: "At the same time that we maintain mobilization and carry arms, we also call for peace . . . We are tired of the cold war, we are tired of military groupings, we are tired of the division of the world into two camps . . . Indeed, we are tired of the daily threat...
...another on the opposite side of the stage precisely imitated him. For the first time anyone at Bayreuth can remember, cuts were made in a Wagnerian score; stage action was reduced to such bare essentials that the production was almost as close to oratorio as opera (Wieland prefers to call it a "Christian mystery...
Covering the low-pressure revolt back in Beirut, an army of 200 sport-shirted newsmen found that the Lebanese rebels were accessible through a phone call from the Hotel St. Georges bar. Rebel headquarters was just a short cab ride away and any correspondent could drop past for tea with Rebel Leader Saeb Salam...
What might accelerate the recovery, regardless of what happens to inventories and plant expansion, is housing, which C.E.D.'s chartists call the economy's "ace in the hole." After dropping farther than in either of the two preceding recessions (13% v. 2½% in 1953, 3½% in 1948), the annual rate of new housing starts broke through pre-recession levels in June, and the industry is expected to pump $1 billion into the market for men and materials this year...