Word: cis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro beaten and shot to death in Mississippi after he unwarily whistled at a white storekeeper's wife (TIME, Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, 1955). Yet Town began, through CBS's courageous suggestion to Serling, as a thinly veiled dramatization of the Till case. A précis of Serling's first effort was rejected by all but one of the sponsors; they would not lend their brand names or money to a treatment of racism that might prejudice Southern customers against their products...
...Kontinuing cis proses year after year, we would eventual! hav a reali sensibl writen languag. By 1975, wi ventyur tu sa cer wud bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum difikultis. Even Mr. Shaw, wi beliv, wud bi hapi in ce noleg cat his drims finali...
...Defense Secretary. Manpower Expert Burgess worked out the Army's new Ready Reserve Program, headed the committee that wrote the post-Korean prisoner-of-war code. A hard-but smooth-working executive with a knack for grasping complicated ideas and reducing them to a two-sentence précis, Burgess won a reputation as one of the best administrators in Government. As administrator of the nation's fourth largest airline, Burgess will earn an estimated $100,000 (including bonuses, stock participation, etc.) v. his present $19,000 a year...
Last week, before the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, General Electric Co. Vice President Fran cis K. McCune said: "The gravest problem now facing the atomic energy business is that of liability for the consequences of an atomic incident. It is the business of private enterprise to take risks. It is, however, quite another thing to say that you will embark on a course which might affect the stability of your company or its very existence...
...Capitol Hill, the dramatic Eisenhower proposal was received with mixed feelings. A few hours before the President advanced the plan in Geneva, Assistant Secretary of State Thruston B. Morton trotted up to the Capitol with the President's précis of the proposal to brief the Senate's leaders. At the end of his message, the President asked for support in the form of "comment." At first, Republican leaders were silent. Then 19 G.O.P...