Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Crimson lost in foil by the close score of 4 to 5, the Tigers walked away with the sabre and epee contests by scores...
...served until war's end, later became president of the World Bank, resigned to take over from General Lucius Clay as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany in 1949. In Germany he won the esteem of SHAPE'S Commander Dwight Eisenhower, has remained one of Ike's close friends...
...will get through the missile gap of the early 1960s with a "diversified" deterrent of manned thermonuclear bombers, Navy carriers and missile-firing nuclear submarines, plus a slowly growing, minimum force of Atlas and Titan ICBMs and the medium-range ballistic missile Thor; 2) the U.S. will close the gap around 1964 to the U.S.S.R.'s disadvantage when the Air Force deploys its "second-generation" solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM in hundreds of underground silos as the missile age's first true mass weapon...
...distance, he pointed out, than Interprovincial pipeline spans between Edmonton and Toronto. Said Robertson: "It would be the wildest folly and the grossest arrogance to say that these things will not, in due course, be quite possible. The 'Far North' is far from us, but it is close to the center of the modern world...
...still baffled evaluation of the Pope's motives in calling the Rome meeting. Germany's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius hopefully felt that the Pope might be acknowledging the World Council's strength (171 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches in 53 countries, with a combined membership of close to 350 million, compared to an estimated 496 million Roman Catholics). Martin Niemoeller, outspoken German pacifist, envisioned a papal effort "to wean away the Eastern Orthodox churches from the World Council. I do not think this will work. The council has more practical experience in modern inter-church cooperation than...