Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested) accept a simple suspension of nuclear tests unless accompanied by general agreement for a cutoff of nuclear-weapon production (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). There were still disagreements among the allies about some other aspects of the U.S. plan. The British would like to see the cutoff date put off until they can build up their stockpile of bombs. Some NATO countries-France, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany-are none too happy over being included in the trial aerial-inspection zone. At week's end Stassen flew over to Paris to confer with NATO's council...
...discourage other powers from developing atomic bombs (experts estimate that no less than 20 nations could develop their own bombs in the next ten years), the U.S. was urging that the three present nuclear powers accept a cutoff date when production of nuclear weapons will cease everywhere, and all nuclear materials will thereafter be diverted to peaceful purposes...
...clouds, as deadly as contaminated air, drifted out of war-torn Algeria into peaceful Tunisia last week. They were locusts, countless millions of them, spawned in areas of Algeria where the civil war had slackened normal spray control. They descended on scores of tiny oases in Tunisia's date-and-olive country. With horrified fascination Tunisians watched them swarm over the ground, in a matter of hours eat every green thing in sight, and then disappear into the hearts of the date palms, thereby dooming the trees...
...date, combines made up of the Royal Dutch-Shell group, the French government and French oil companies have pumped $135 million into the Sahara...
...extraordinary effect that three trumpets and five trombones can achieve. The concert ended with Daniel Pinkham '44 conducting the combined chorus and orchestra in his new Wedding Cantata. In five movements, this is a wholly ingratiating and captivating work, full of imaginative and nuanced timbres--his finest composing to date...