Word: chief
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Four public meetings at Geneva were certainly getting nowhere. Neither did the first of their private talks, 15,000 feet over the Atlantic. But already everyone was looking for an agreeable way to break off the Geneva talks in a week or two, and the chief interest now centered on a search for an interim agreement committing all Big Four powers to maintain something like the status quo in Berlin. The Russians, who wanted something to show for backing off farther from Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum (which expired uneventfully on the day of Dulles' funeral), were haggling...
...with the sounds of political campaigning, bright with electric signs spelling out two messages: "You must vote" and "Your vote is secret." Last week, in elections for the first government of the State of Singapore, the left-wing People's Action Party swept 43 of the 51 seats. Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, 44, the able young trade unionist who established peace in the island after the bloody 1955 riots by jailing half a dozen leaders of the P.A.P.'s Communist wing, failed utterly in last-minute efforts to unite the moderate and right-wing parties...
Cuba's bearded Premier Fidel Castro dropped all affairs of state to take personal command of the search for his kid brother Raul, 27, listed among the missing after taking off in a light plane for a short flight from Havana. Next day Raul, trigger-happy commander in chief of Cuba's armed forces, turned up safe in Cuban swampland after a crash landing in a storm. Just to complicate matters, the rescue plane that picked up Raul to return him to Havana in triumph landed with another crash (jammed landing gear) near the capital. Looking more than...
...swain, grudgingly hands over his daughter.) Funniest part is the traffic of devout Athenians to the temple of Pan near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author (The Art of Teaching) and classicist who teaches Greek and Latin at Columbia University. It took him a week to translate the play's six-beat Greek iambics into six-beat English iambics...
...from most. He actually throws it from the fingertips of his middle and index fingers, keeps the nails on those fingers cut short for a better grip. Out of high school in the North Carolina mill town of Cornelius, Pitcher Wilhelm moved up through the minor leagues slowly. His chief problem was that few catchers could hold on to his pitches. He was 28 before he reached the majors with the New York Giants in 1952. Giant Manager Leo Durocher immediately made him a relief pitcher. "The knuckler can fool 'em for four or five innings," said Manager Durocher...