Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said a good U.S. friend, Lebanon's Philosopher-Statesman Dr. Charles Malik: "It is absolutely a sine qua non condition of this opportunity that the U.S. makes it crystal clear that while it will not condone destruction of Israel, equally it will not condone expansion of Israel. The U.S. should stop at no limits in preventing further penetration of this area by Communism and should do everything it can to roll it back. Part of the opportunity is for the U.S. not only to take an interest in economic development-which is, after all, neutral-but it should interest...
...scramble for control of 30 statehouses ended with an almost even split between the two parties (including the Democrats' gubernatorial victory in Maine in September). In some states, the out come was baffling enough to send a stream of crystal balls hurtling into the political junkpile-there to be joined by many a bewildered seer. Items...
...play probably has enough serviceable tricks, enough scattered brilliance, enough second-bounce for a superlative production to bring the whole thing off. The current production is no more than a very competent one; it cannot convey a needed sense of grand-staircased crescendoes and crystal-chandeliered wit. As Magnus, Maurice Evans has his real virtues, and the right polished utterance, but for parry-and-thrust he uses a gold-headed cane instead of a rapier, and he seems in manner more tutorial than ironic...
...would be all too easy to pass off President Eisenhower's campaign for re-election as a species of "leap-year liberalism" that may succeed in returning the President to the White House, but will surely send the rest of the nation back down the road to the Crystal Palace. Granted, there was justification for fearing such an about-face in 1952, when the General was something of an uninitiated commander crusading for the wrong side. At the head of a party which had spent the previous twenty years blocking every major social advance, he seemed like a quarterback...
Last week the peasants were being asked to believe a startling promise. By the fall of 1961, says Vice Premier Teng Tzu-hui, the lower reaches of the world's siltiest river will indeed run crystal-clear. Red China has decided to take on the proud and tempestuous Yellow...