Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...C.I.O., and labor, as rarely before, is organizing the precincts on Morse's behalf. Moreover, Democrat Morse has a break on the issues: 1) because of the nationwide slowdown in home building, Oregon's billion-dollar lumber business has slacked off; 2) because of lower farm prices, Eastern Oregon's big-business wheat farmers are pouting; and 3) even though private enterprise already is hard at work on a power project in the Hell's Canyon area, a recent power shortage has allowed Morse to sing his "Government can do it better" chant with some effectiveness...
Always the Rosjanie. In its thousand years of history Poland has been many times dominated from the East. Out of the eastern steppe have come barbaric conquerors, feudal overlords, religious crusaders, imperialists and Communists, but to the Poles they have always been the Rosjanie-the Russians. Though often overrun, cut up and reduced, the Poles-even Polish Communists-have never yielded the intense belief that they are a nation, separate and sovereign...
...which has long dreamed of extending her borders, was willing to send troops into Jordan as long as they did not have to serve under the King's inexperienced young general, Abu Nuwar. Britain too would rather see Jordan dominated by Iraq, Britain's strongest remaining Middle Eastern ally, than by the third vulture-Nasser's Egypt...
...morning fog lifted. All along the Cote d'Or, the gorgeous Golden Slope of vineyards that tints eastern France for 30 miles, the autumn sun beamed warm rays on the deserted towns. Except for a pair of black-clad grandmothers gossiping on the cobblestones and a couple of overalled, rubber-booted winegrowers closing a deal over a jug of Burgundy in the Cafe de la Cote d'Or, everybody in Nuits-St. Georges (pop. 3,600)-men, women and children, the schoolmaster and even the cure-was out harvesting the new vintage in the heart of France...
...leadership of NSA is chosen from the more active members. This year among the six major officers five were from the Midwest. In the past, however, of forty-eight possible positions fifteen were filled by Eastern schools (five of these being Harvard people), nine by Western schools, seventeen by Midwestern schools and seven from Southern schools. With increased participation the Eastern college can assuredly gain the place of prominence it had in the past...