Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driver of the Lincoln applied the brakes strongly . . . The truck continued to move to the left, [and] the Lincoln was forced off the highway with the left wheels going into the sand. The truck continued onward. The driver of the Lincoln attempted to turn back . . . apparently to avoid a cement post, and the left front wheel of the vehicle dug into the sand, flipping the Lincoln on its top upon the highway...
...secret. He had been asked to appear on the CBS-TV panel show I've Got a Secret. The British Foreign Office came to the aid of the producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, by persuading the British Amateur Athletic Board that the trip would help "cement British-American relations." By the time Bannister landed at New York's Idlewild airport, Reuters had broken the story and reporters, radio-TV men and diplomats outnumbered the Goodson & Todman agents, who claimed first crack at the athlete because, after all, they had thought up the idea and paid his passage...
...with gallant old (70) anti-Nazi Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the 76-year-old Chancellor hopes to erase some of the bitterness left by the Nazi occupation and to convince Greece that West Germany can be a good partner. In Turkey, where Germans are popular, he expects to cement a "long-term partnership" that will help German salesmen-and eventually German diplomats-in the Moslem world...
...Undergraduate Athletic Council last night formally approved the revised constitution of the Managers' Council--a group of junior and senior sports managers revived this winter to cement ties between players, the Athletic Council, and the Harvard Athletic Association...
Some of the conquerors themselves are alarmed at the trend. U.S. businessmen, who have found themselves undersold in foreign markets by 40% or more on such items as X-ray equipment and cement-making machinery, are getting out their storm warnings. Some British firms are so worried that they are already bluntly reminding their customers that the Germans who today are winning export business away from the British are the" same ones who yesterday made the V-25 that bombed London. Headlined Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: THEY'LL BEAT YOU YET, THESE GERMANS...