Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept the Crimson barely alive in the Eastern League race, although Princeton's 4-1 victory over Yale established the Tigers as solid favorites for the title. Princeton now stands at 5-0, with Yale (6-2), Army (3-1), and Navy and the Crimson (each 3-2) following...
Then, though the atmosphere was tense, Gaitskell plunged ahead. He raised the question of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. He asked Khrushchev to consider the release of Social Democrats imprisoned in Eastern Europe, and proffered a list of 150 names furnished by U.S. union leaders...
Brusquely, Khrushchev refused even to lay his hand on the document. Furthermore, he snapped, it was "nonsense" to talk of anti-Semitism in Russia, and there were no Social Democrats in Russia. How the Eastern European countries handled Social Democrats was none of his business. "Why should we care what happens to enemies of the working class?" he demanded truculently...
...Syria, Israel's northern and eastern neighbors insisted on qualifying their armistice pledge: if Israel carries out its oft-announced intention of diverting Jordan River waters to irrigate its coastal plain, they will go to war. In talking the three Arab states into joining in a flat commitment to restore the 1949 armistice conditions, Hammarskjold won timely help from Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who, though he did not mention the Jordan waters, told the 24th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last week: "Israel will not precipitate any major crisis...
...moneywinners. "Who's he?" yelled a wiseacre. Wershow ignored the heckler. "He is long and very strong. He likes the course. He is playing well. How much for Souchak?" Quickly the bidding climbed, and Souchak, for $11,000, went to a bidder named Walter Marty, reportedly representing eastern gamblers...