Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Improper Bostonian, Beebe has long been fascinated with the West. In 1951 he settled down in Virginia City, and soon became publisher of the Territorial Enterprise and a full-time Westerner. Now he writes of his new home town with the same purple pen he used to describe Eastern gin-mills for the New York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown...
Cyprus, a strategically situated island in the eastern Mediterranean, is a place that has been denied even the long-term hope of independence. The British, anxious to strengthen it as a Middle Eastern base now that Suez has gone, fortnight ago classified Cyprus as one of those parts of their empire which will never be allowed to go free. Last week the British-run government of the island, getting specific, forbade Cypriot agitation for Enosis (union) with Greece. Henceforth, Enosis agitation on Cyprus will be punished as seditious...
SENATOR H. ALEXANDER SMITH, 74, a New Jersey Republican lawyer who studied under Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, worked for Herbert Hoover's post-World War I relief teams, and rates as one of the Senate's best-informed authorities on Far Eastern policy...
With fervor, Eden cried: "We shall be creating a new pattern of friendship throughout these Middle-Eastern regions . . . It is the only way we can hope to work with those countries. We cannot hope to work with them by putting 20,000, 30,000, 80,000 men there and telling them what to do. They simply will not do what they are told, and that leads to endless trouble...
LITTLE-BIG INCH pipeline, converted from oil to natural gas after World War II, will again become a petroleum carrier to the East Coast if the FPC approves. Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. wants to reconvert 1,168 miles of the line up to Moundsville, W.Va. at a cost of $13 million; to replace it, the company will build a $72 million gas line from Texas to Mississippi to join with an existing gas line to the East, thus keeping gas deliveries at 1.2 billion...