Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumor had run through the hall that Britain had agreed to drop her demand for international controls of the canal, but Sir Anthony's comments were designed to set Tory hearts at rest on that matter. Warning against "hasty or optimistic judgment," he said that "wide differences of opinion" remain. Then, in a passage that pleased the bit-chomping "Suez Group" M.P.s, Eden concluded: "President Eisenhower at his press conference Thursday is reported to have said that you must have peace with justice or it is not peace. I agree with these words. That is why we have always...
...other maneuvers to check the trouble in his coalition, Chancellor Adenauer last week also decided to drop several ministers, including Defense Minister Theodor Blank, pale, plodding ex-trade-union leader who was under fire for his handling of army recruitment and equipment. Slated for the defense job is Atomic Affairs Minister Franz Josef Strauss, burly Bavarian right-winger who has coveted Blank's job for six years, was leader of the successful fight to cut the West German conscription term from 18 to 12 months. His cur rent goal: tactical atomic weapons for West Germany...
...Religion Means to Me," but religion as such is subordinated to fiction and features; e.g., a movie guide with plus or minus recommendations broken down for adults, youth, children and family, a picture essay on a child with a cleft palate, an account of the world's record drop-kicked field goal (63 yards, in 1915, by Dakota Wesleyan's Halfback Mark Payne). Eye catcher is a color portfolio of portraits of Christ, vividly demonstrating how men have altered Christ's image to accord with the temper of their times and of themselves. The portraits range from...
Ever-popular Music 1 suffered a drop in enrollment from 408 last year to 355 and has fallen from fifth to eighth place. Social Sciences 4 and Natural Sciences 3 follow to complete the roster...
...case, he said, a high tariff is not the best way to protect the industry. In its place the U.S. should choose the lesser evil of paying government subsidies to makers, just as some airlines and shipowners are subsidized as a defense necessity. Thus watch prices would drop to the world-market level, and the cost of supporting a defense industry would be placed where it belongs-with the taxpayers, not watch buyers...