Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excitement over Trieste faded (largely because the U.S. and Britain would make no move for fear of offending Yugoslavia's Dictator Tito), the basic weakness of Pella's position began to overtake him. A caretaker can dust the desk, but he cannot move the furniture or redecorate the place. Italy was full of continuing discontent-over the 2,000,000 unemployed, over low wages and high costs, over clericalism ν. anticlericalism in politics, over land reform. The caretaker Premier, by the nature of his position, had neither program nor machinery for doing much about...
Hidden Bodies. By week's end the dust was settling a little. General Motors eagerly jumped in to fill the sponsor's gap on the Godfrey & His Friends show and other advertisers were lining up to replace Chesterfield in the open radio &. TV "segments. CBS President Frank Stanton saw the rupture merely as a matter of personalities: "There are no hidden bodies. It was just a lot of little things. For over two years we couldn't get together on renewing a contract. It's a little like a divorce is sometimes...
...dominating concern for tiptoed entrances and exits, the emphasis on leakproof caskets, and the display of the physical remains artfully improved by cosmetics and specially tailored casket apparel, represent essentially a reversal of Christian belief and its candid committal of the material body to ashes and dust...
...victory quieted Korea, but it was still the quiet of the dormant volcano. Mankind's greatest tyrant died; his death touched off a lupine scuffle for succession in the Kremlin and opened a new and unpredictable era for the tyranny Joseph Stalin fixed on half the globe. Radioactive dust particles borne east in a cloud from Siberia told the outside world that Russia, too, had plumbed the secret of the thermonuclear bomb and could now visit instantaneous death on the obscurest cranny of civilization. Yet somehow, in the year in which he learned that a mere handful of chemicals...
December: The holiday season will begin as usual, with Macy's Christmas parade, and a denial of parole to Alger Hiss. Then animositics will melt in the glow of holiday good feeling, and newsmen will be forced to dust off their crystal balls once again...