Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists were exploiting their brand-new Sputnik to achieve their old Middle Eastern objectives. "People of the whole world are pointing to the satellite," crowed Nikita. "They are saying that the U.S. has been beaten...
...much as a third of the orchestra was sick at one time, probably with the Eastern malady known as "Delhi belly," but all performed manfully. At an open-air concert in Baghdad, a band of yelping dogs competed so successfully that at the concert's end Dorati fled from the podium in a huff, a case of dogs beat...
After four years of knee-and-gouge legal battle with the U.S. long-haul trucking industry. 24 Eastern railroads emerged last week with a black eye that is likely to remain visible for some time. In Philadelphia, Federal District Judge Thomas
...back their imports of cheaper foreign oil under a "voluntary" 10% reduction program (TIME, Sept. 30). Having already rejected appeals by three companies (Tidewater, Indiana Standard Oil, Ohio Standard) for sizable boosts in their import quotas. Navy Captain Matthew V. Carson Jr., administrator of the program, also turned down Eastern States Petroleum Co. and Sinclair Oil Co., even though Sinclair argues that it will mean costly cutbacks in its ambitious plans to sell Venezuelan crude...
Martin knows-and so does his best friend Heinrich, whose father was also killed on the Eastern front. It meant that Father was replaced by an "uncle." Sometimes the uncles are nice, like Martin's Uncle Albert, who shares the same house as Martin's mother, but not her bed. Sometimes they are crabbed and cruel, like Heinrich's Uncle Leo, the last of a long succession of uncles who moved in with his mother, stayed a while, and moved...