Word: clusters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like weeds in the rubble, a cluster of neo-Nazi parties sprouted in postwar Germany. The only one to cause any serious worry among U.S. officials was the Socialist Reich party (SRP), which last year polled 360,000 votes in Lower Saxony. Its mouthpiece was a cut-rate Goebbels, former Major General Otto Ernst Remer, who peddled the line that Germany must return to the "good things" in Naziism. Last November, the West German government jailed Remer, asked the federal constitutional court to outlaw the party...
Cashmere's nomination immediately ran into trouble, i.e., that peculiar New York political institution, the Liberal Party. Core of the Liberal Party is Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; around it cluster intellectuals like Adolf Berle and Reinhold Niebuhr. The Liberal Party fights Tammany, but on national and statewide issues usually lines up with the Democrats. When it seemed clear that Cashmore would be nominated, the Liberals balked. They nominated a stopgap candidate, Columbia University's Dr. George S. Counts. Party leaders admitted that they might shift to another candidate before election. What made...
...foundation has already created two new towns along its pioneer highway. Aragarças (pop. 2,000) has new houses for road workers, a school for 350 children, a 70-bed hospital, sawmill, machine shop and brick factory. Chavantina (pop. 300), a cluster of brick huts, lies even deeper in the Mato Grosso, on the banks of the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths) and near the hunting grounds of the fierce Chavante Indians...
...last month, a cluster of art lovers stood tippy-toe outside the Art Center in Manchester, Vt. Within twelve minutes after the doors were opened, some 40 canvases were sold; by last week, the total had jumped to 205, fetching $10,000. It promised to be the fattest annual exhibition the Southern Vermont Artists, Inc. had ever...
...spun into phrases and the phrases to be spun into entries. You must separate the gold from the copper coins." By Lesson Twelve, students are being coached in such dark mysteries as the use of the "Mystic Three." Says Shepherd: "Even Julius Caesar used a Mystic Three verb cluster when he uttered his famous words: 'I came, I saw, I conquered...