Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happens every year. Kathe Kollwitz returns to Cambridge. War ravages the land. Someone mentions pathos comparing Kollwitz to Goya. A chorus nods its appreciation of pathos and it is left for some meek, distant voice to observe that Goya, however, remains a formidable criterion...
Arranging "an intimate party for some chums," Showman Mike Todd hired Madison Square Garden for the night of Oct. 17 to commemorate the first anniversary of the opening of his movie, Around the World in 80 Days. Arriving from such distant points as England, France and Venezuela, some 18,000 intimate chums will gather to help Mike celebrate...
Billy Prince, a handsome, hustling man who hates offices, was born William Wood, the son of a fairly prosperous New York insurance executive. At ten, he became the protege of a distant cousin, the late Frederick Henry Prince, a brilliant, eccentric New England speculator who liked to boast that he had built four railroads and had financial control at one time or another over 46 more. "Cousin Fred's" own young son Norman, of France's famed Lafayette Escadrille of U.S. flyers in World War I, was killed in action in 1916, and his 'older son showed...
...What is striking [is] that essentially the same pattern of Soviet behavior should time and again raise discussion about its 'sincerity' or its 'novelty,' " says Kissinger. "Nothing could be more irrelevant." Steadfast Communist doctrine uses war and peace as varying opportunistic means to the same distant goal: domination of the entire world...
Canada and the U.S. last week took two important steps to enclose their common backyard. On the Arctic Circle, the DEW line (for Distant Early Warning), a 3,000-mile electronic tripwire, was switched on; for the first time, Canada and the U.S. could feel reasonably secure against a Pearl Harbor attack from the north. At the same time, Washington and Ottawa announced that the two nations' air forces would form a joint command (ADCANUS) for continental defense. ADCANUS will be commanded by Air Force General Earle E. Partridge at the U.S. air-defense center at Colorado Springs, Colo...