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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Witness for Jehovah since 1913, it is rather difficult for me to tell whether your article was intended to be informative or possibly sarcastic. At any rate, please accept my personal thanks...
...voyage of one U.S. nuclear submarine-one of six operational, 23 on the way-the Navy had 1) increased the power of the U.S. deterrent by laying bare the Communist empire's northern shores to the future Polaris-missile-toting nuclear submarines; 2) pioneered a potential though difficult underwater commercial trade route that remakes the map of the world. And as Anderson flew on from Washington at week's end to reboard Nautilus and take her into harbor at Portland, England, he left behind with President Eisenhower the letter he had written in longhand at the big moment...
Curious Indiscretions. Thus began Orwell's difficult position in the hagiography of modern liberalism: though he started out on the left, he spent his best eloquence on exposing the left's hypocrisies. Orwell was honest enough to know that neither he nor any new society could change his nature; he knew that his Old School Tie set him off from other men in Britain, and he wore it with the same mixture of pain and pride as the Blessed John Ogilvie, a Jesuit missionary, might have shown toward the halter with which he was hanged at Glasgow...
...access to the Commonwealth trading area as well as the common market. But foreign traders contend that now is the best time for U.S. firms to enter the market area. Says Lawyer Ball: "There are dangers in waiting. Once producers in other countries are established, it may be extremely difficult to establish a competitive source of production...
...thus coming from the time before Hindemith was 30 years old. Hindemith, a concert violist himself, was familiar with the sonic abilities of that instrument. The piece was a study in dissonance, brought about by playing on two strings at once. The multiple-stopping was at times very difficult, but Eleftherios Eleftherakis played brilliantly for the most part. The piece and its performance were marked by a great richness of tone and lucidity...