Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table (unaware of the Oriental convention that the victor faces south), and so dismayed the face-conscious enemy that "the Communist liaison officer actually stuttered." Thereafter the U.N. faced north. Another fact was the simple proposition that almost half of the Red prisoners did not want to go home. Eighteen months were consumed in negotiations during which the Reds attempted to digest this fact, or disguise it by allegations ("torture, massacre"), and to produce, by the very tactics they charged against the U.S., a handful of brainwashed Americans who opted for Communism...
Oilman McCollum had reason to be staggered last week. Eighteen miles off Jefferson Parish, La., his company brought in the deepest well (15,058 ft.) in the deepest water (97 ft.) ever drilled in offshore exploration...
...Corps of Discovery." Their objective was to explore the newly acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase and find a route from the Missouri to the Columbia River, over which the rich fur trade of the Northwest might be diverted from British Canada to the U.S. . Eighteen months later -on Nov. 15, 1805- they reached the Pacific Ocean. This month Lewiston, Idaho, and cities of the Northwest in the valleys of the Clearwater, Snake and Columbia Rivers, are observing the 150th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark Expedition...
...arms. But today, all that is known is that on June 14, 1777. the Philadelphia Congress resolved that ". . . the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.'' Eighteen years of digging and deduction have produced a new theory that the Stars and Stripes descended not from the national colors of some other country but from a red-and-white-striped symbol of unity flown by Calvinists in seven northern provinces of The Netherlands during the revolt against Spain that...
Should newspaper photographers be allowed to take pictures in courtrooms? Eighteen years ago the American Bar Association answered with a firm no. adopted Canon 35, banning cameras from courts. Fourteen states followed suit by officially making Canon 35 a part of their law; it was approved by the bar associations of close to a dozen other states. Frequent court decisions have upheld a judge's right to bar photographers from his court. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused even to hear an appeal from the Cleveland Press, whose photographers had been held in contempt for taking courtroom pictures...