Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More painful was the Arab-Israeli infection, which flared up anew as Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir rose to demand "collective moral pressure" by the U.N. to enforce its 1951 decision condemning Egypt's refusal to let ships carrying Israeli goods pass through the Suez Canal. Indignantly, Golda Meir reported that the Danish freighter Inge Toft, which was stopped by the Egyptians last May with a cargo originating in Israel, "is being held to this day at Port Said." The United Arab Republic's Farid Zeineddine promptly asked for the floor and, hardily ignoring...
...cork wall, "as an undergraduate concentrating in government, I am required to take Economics I and a course in history. Very well, I must dispose of these requirements immediately." He hit the grey book again, found Ec I--MWF at 12--on page 90 ("Dandy hour for supply and demand") and made another notation...
...oratorical whopper was stunned silence, broken once or twice by incredulous laughter from the press gallery. And this came close to summarizing unspoken official reaction throughout the West. For diplomatic reasons, no one wanted to come right out and say "nonsense," but the fact remained that Nikita's demand for total disarmament was so absurd and impractical as to be insulting. It paid no more than token heed to the all-important Western insistence that any disarmament agreement is meaningless and dangerous without an ironclad control system. It ignored the self-evident fact that no totalitarian government, whether...
...total to $52.1 billion, fast approaching the alltime high of $54.2 billion in mid-1957. But in July, inventories rose by only $100 million. The steel strike is another major factor in slowing inventory buying. "Steel is having its recession right now," explains a steel company economist. "Deferred demand will mean good and profitable business for us at least through...
...teen-age girls came in conservative, mannish-looking apparel: vests, West Point-styled jackets, wool poncho capes, hooded sweaters and jackets called "benchwarmers." New York's Peck & Peck said that sales from its mail-order back-to-school brochure are running 23% ahead of last year. Biggest demand is for old standbys such as polo and Chesterfield coats, but there is also a fad for kilt skirts and shaggy-dog coats. In Los Angeles the Smart Sixteen set is buying blankets for a sew-it-yourself skirt and blazer set. Most popular are clothes adorned with raccoon. Says Angela...