Word: counted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul van Zeeland, Belgium; Lester Pearson, Canada; Gustav Rasmussen, Denmark; Count Carlo Sforza, Italy; Joseph Bech, Luxembourg; Dirk U. Stikker, The Netherlands; Jose Caeiro da Matta, Portugal; Halvard M. Lange, Norway; Thor Thors, Iceland...
Shortly before the U.N.'s Fourth General Assembly opened at Flushing Meadows this week, Secretary General Trygve Lie performed a solemn duty. He unveiled a commemorative plaque (the first in U.N.'s history) for U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, shot down just a year ago by assassins in Jerusalem. The best that could be said on this occasion was that, in the past year, neither the violence in Palestine nor any other of the world's conflicts had flared into a general...
...minus one minute, Commander Murphy began to count in five-second intervals. When he reached "X minus 35 seconds," Milton Rosen of the Naval Research Laboratory ordered, "Recorders...
...shocked by conditions he saw in India: the opium dens of Calcutta, the wandering lepers crying "Baksheesh," the filth and poverty of the villages. "I learned that one meal a day was all the majority of the people could count on . . . In those villages it took no effort...
...beer. It climbed from eighth to first place in Eastern beer sales largely by the use of pretty Miss Rheingolds, about half of them Irish "colleens" duly elected each year by beer drinkers. (Current Miss Rheingold: pert Pat McElroy.) In its battle with Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola plans to count heavily on the new television Pepsi-Cola Girl, Louise Hyde, a 24-year-old Chattanooga belle of whom one adman said hopefully: "She just makes you feel thirsty...