Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to increase the prestige of France's wavering currency (which has now been devalued seven times since the end of World War II), De Gaulle and his ministers proposed to introduce gradually, between now and 1960, a new "heavy franc," equivalent to 100 present francs and roughly close in value (20?) to two of the world's most respected monetary units-the German Deutsche Mark and the Swiss franc. (Frenchmen, said Pinay, will soon get used to dropping two zeros from all their figures...
...which has a two-term limit (six years to a term), he did not intend to stand for a third term next year. The audience's response was silence; to cheer might have been regarded as a sign of disrespect. But when Chiang went on to explain that close adherence to the constitution was "one of our weapons in waging war against the Communists," the audience, most of them National Assemblymen, broke into applause...
...Hollywood premiere, Director Vincente Minnelli laid a proud parental hand on the young shoulders of daughter Liza, 12, strikingly close to being a doe-eyed, wonder-struck replica of her mother, Songstress Judy Garland Luft...
...also for cancer patients when they know the end is near, and in some unrelated disorders where its apparent value is not fully understood, e.g., angina pectoris and rheumatoid arthritis. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (which markets iproniazid as Marsilid) and rival manufacturers have brought out drugs that are close chemical kin to iproniazid but with fewer drawbacks...
Modern science's view of antimatter as oddly charged particles that disappear on contact with matter has some connection, Dali thinks, with the medievalists' view of angels, which could light in hosts upon the point of a pin. His new canvas relates to both concepts. Seen close, it does dissolve into pure abstraction-as abstract, say, as the goings-on in a physicist's cloud chamber...