Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians. Adenauer has often promised that Germany would never use force to regain these lost territories; last week he went further. In a CBS interview he said that he could foresee the day when, in a United Europe, boundaries would be of less importance than they are today. In effect, Germany was not pressing for its old lands...
Jorge got the news at a luxury-lined private hospital where he was being treated for kidney trouble. It seemed to effect a miraculous cure. Jorge leaped out of bed and into his Mercedes-Benz, announced that the first thing he and his friends planned to do was board a plane for Venezuela to pay their respects to their old boss Perón. He regretted Kelly would not be with them. "Kelly's fate," he said, "has saddened us all, and I myself am prepared to do anything...
...rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like a man who had stood too close to his razor. The bell was his biggest ally when his knees came...
...time that a Secretary of the Army and a Chief of Staff had ever looked directly at troops in action over a field commander's shoulder 900 miles away. They shared the view with millions who, between the humdrum of quiz shows and soap operas, watched the paratroopers effect the historic entry of nine Negro students into the Little Rock school. Viewers also saw the troops double-timing to round up sullen riffraff, heard white students uttering words of hatred-and tolerance. TV news directors broke into network programs at will that day, eleven times on CBS, eight...
...reward. The preposterous little fable is funniest when played in deadly earnest. Playhouse 90 pitched it in a mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with an ill-starred cast. Comedian Ernie Kovacs as Topaze and Carl Reiner as the swindler heightened the effect of a rambling revue skit, did not so much dominate as swamp their roles with their familiar TV personalities. Still, in a medium that mines so much of its comedy from mothers and fathers who know best, even this production of Topaze had the rare virtue of a refreshingly cynical...