Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drifting acres and gritty clouds hazed the sun, the farmers of the new dust bowl had prayed for rain. Last week black storm clouds churned over land that had known drought for four long years-over west Texas and the gasping Panhandle, over southern and western Oklahoma, over eastern New Mexico-and the water came drumming down. It rained for days. In many an area, the drought-stricken found themselves the victims of floods...
...present focus of the Far Eastern situation is the Geneva Conference, opening next week. Mr. Anthony Eden, who will represent Britain, said recently: "I am going to Geneva determined to do my best to get a settlement in Korea and Indo-China, but I am going without any illusions about the kind of people the Chinese Communists...
Sabro Hasegawa, 47, a Japanese exhibiting at The Contemporaries, expresses himself with a somewhat less intelligible accent that mixes abstractionism and Eastern inscrutability. But even when the words are not understandable, Hasegawa's intent is clear: to convey peace, order and dignity through form and design. His favorite method: wood-block printing. He dips pieces of wood into Chinese ink, prints directly onto rice paper. The result, as in a four-paneled screen called The Harmonious, is a pleasing arrangement of black and grey rectangles. He uses color sparingly, feels that his black ink "is very colorful." Sometimes...
Fear of the propertyless masses in eastern cities prompted arguments like the following which was expressed at the Pennsylvania constitutional convention...
...game was closer, than the score, but the loss counts heavily, nonetheless, for it was the Crimson's opening Eastern league game of a nine-game circuit schedule...