Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet maneuver seems designed primarily to force Western recognition of Otto Grotewohl's East German regime. Last winter Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced that any negotiations over German unification must be made with East Germany directly; the present demand appears to be another similarly motivated tactic. So far, the German Democratic Republic has applied no pressure comparable to that of the Soviets during the blockade of 1948-49. But if the East Germans decide to bear down on West Berlin--by closing the corridors or stopping free interchange between city sectors--then the allied authorities in Berlin may be forced...
...Roots of Heaven, angrily denied the Foreman charge: "I have no control of any sort over her career." Greco may have given Zanuck that impression by accepting the lead in a British-German film against his advice. When he descended on her German location not long ago to demand script changes and shower presents, Greco purred by phone from her hotel room: "You can't come up. Wait there and I might come down." Then she went to bed, leaving Zanuck to shiver alone on the terrace in the autumn night. ¶ Sailors' eyes clicked like gyro-repeaters...
Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, denied use of the Dunster junior common room to outside groups "because it's being actively used every night" by members of the House. "The only other meeting rooms we have here are in full demand already," he added...
Prime Minister Nehru observed recently that Asians see today's world divided not between Communists and anti-Communists but "haves" and "have-nots." He includes the southern Asians in the latter group. Rising though it does from their desperate poverty, their demand for social and economic reform is keener because of the example of China's startling industrial expansion. Nehru sees this as a challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion, but in other countries it seems to be felt as a challenge to which democracy has no answer...
...Program was orginally a "war baby" of the U. S. Office of Education, but in 1945, the Business School soon received numerous requests to continue the program on an industry sponsorer basis. By 1949, demand had boosted the Program's size from eighty to one-hundred and fifty executives per session...