Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson is a dead duck politically -and this seems quite likely-don't think that Estes Kefauver is a live one, flying directly to a White House perch. Like Wendell Willkie, Estes Kefauver seems to like people and people seem to like him. But the political leaders don't like him-and in particular the Democratic members of the Senate. The Southerners in these days of the hot segregation issue don't like Estes either...
...angry committee of mayors who were threatening to strike if some 100 terrorists in French jails were not executed immediately, clapped a midnight-to-dawn curfew on the whole city. But the tide of hate ran on. In a single day 47 rebels and two Frenchmen were killed. The. dead bodies of another 100-odd victims were turned up in the course of the week. The president of the Algerian Assembly resigned, declaring: "The Franco-Musulman community has ceased to exist." French reinforcements poured into the ports, the first contingents of two new divisions ordered there from Germany. At week...
...provisional government, the Republic of Indonesia (pop. 80 million) got around to holding a general election last September. Five months later the ballots, from jungle villages and distant islands, were counted. Of the 172 parties contending for the 260 seats in the new Parliament, two finished in a dead heat: the Nationalists and Masjumi (Moslem) Parties, each with 57 seats. In fourth place, with a surprising 39 seats, were the Communists...
Biblical scholars around the world arched their eyebrows at three BBC broadcasts of British Professor John Marc Allegro of Manchester University last January (TIME, Feb. 6). Philologist Allegro, who had worked on the team deciphering the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem, drew an imposing number of dramatic parallels between Jesus Christ and the Teacher of Righteousness mentioned in the scrolls of the Qumran community, which were found almost nine years ago near the Dead...
This position was vigorously attacked by John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, as representing a "dead on the feet" attitude in the Harvard community. He claimed that such an attitude merely seeks the easiest way out, and that the University's prestige made it "incredible to let someone else look after the undergraduate problem." He also pointed out that Harvard has expanded in the past without noticeably diminishing the quality of its education...