Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the most convulsive changes can break through the interminable loudspeaker insistence that ill is well, the leadership is collective and opinions are unanimous. Western Europe, on the other hand, is a place that emphasizes its divisions, airs its numerous arguments, and sometimes half convinces itself that it is close to ruin...
...famous secret, weeping, emotional speech to the same body ten days later, in which he denounced Stalin as a "sickly suspicious," bloodthirsty tyrant, Khrushchev tried to take from Stalin even his chief glory as victor in war, and in doing so, told an anecdote which showed that Malenkov was close to Stalin's side during his most panicky moments...
Miss Hartman's announcement followed close on statements from high Summer School officials that students congregating in front of dormitories, which is against Summer School regulations, will be actively discouraged by University Police...
...heckled him from across the diamond and shirtsleeved kibitzers shouted advice from the stands, but the burly, ruddy man alongside the Cincinnati bat rack gave no sign that he heard. The center-field Scoreboard reminded him that he was a front runner in a National League pennant race so close that the loss of a single game might mean the difference between first place and fourth, but beyond pawing abstractedly at his red-sleeved uniform shirt, he appeared unmoved. All week long, alone in the shouting crowd with his furious concentration, the Redlegs' Manager George Robert ("Birdie") Tebbetts...
...months ago President Eisenhower ordered RFC to shut up shop as of the close of the 1956-57 fiscal year. Last week, with only about 100 employees remaining of the 12,000 it had in its prime-and only $80 million worth of loans unrepaid of $50 billion authorized-RFC took down the bronze name plate over its rented office quarters in Washington, turned its remaining assets over to other Government agencies, and passed out of existence. RFC, taking it all in all, had had a wondrously successful career...