Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from a vacation, held a rare press conference to explain to foreign correspondents that the Russian note had been "misunderstood." At that point, a new Russian note could have been predicted. When it arrived last week, it bore the marks of Molotov's skillful hand. Dropping the blunt demand of Nov. 3 that any East-West conference 1) include Red China, and 2) be preceded by abandonment of NATO and EDC, the Kremlin declared itself ready to take part in a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting...
...oldest industrial plant in the city. Pignone, a dreary and sprawling factory which used to make torpedoes for Mussolini, was taken over after the war by Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest textile combine, which used it to make cotton-spinning machines for export. But a slump in textile demand and high costs (partly caused by Communist-inspired strikes) brought on a layoff last January of 350 workers, leaving 1,750. Last month Pignone's stockholders decided to halt operations altogether, and the dreaded closing notice was posted...
...writers did not begin mentioning Peter's Roman martyrdom until the second and third centuries. But the hints are important ones, e.g., in all the church controversies of the early centuries, no one saw fit to deny Peter's Roman martyrdom. As Cullmann observes: "Were we to demand for all facts of ancient history a greater degree of probability, we should have to strike from our history books a large proportion of their contents...
...achieve the necessary increase, the world will need to produce more than four times as much energy by the end of this century as it does now. The demand for more energy is already being felt in backward countries, where the U.S. and Western Europe, by exporting capital and know-how, are setting up a "spiral of industrialization" which will mechanize underdeveloped areas. Say the Woytinskys: "This is a one-way road, and there is no going back to grinding grain and making flour at home...
This may mean that students will have to wait until next fall for the instigation of a no-line tickets-by-mail system. The demand to see spring sports probably will not cause a distribution problem as great as this winter...