Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory for Great Britain's Conservative Party and the first solidly entrenched Brit ish government in the past five years. In smartly winning his gamble on a well-timed quick election, Sir Anthony Eden won his own five-year mandate to govern Great Britain under the banners of en lightened Toryism, and his Conservatives more than trebled the thin parliamentary majority Eden had inherited from Sir Winston Churchill...
...lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild the secret of Siegfried's sole weakness. In slaying the sacred dragon of the Dwarf people, Siegfried has been drenched in the monster's en chanted blood except for one spot where a leaf stuck to his back. Hagen hurls his long spear through the mortal skin, Brunhilde impales herself on Siegfried's grave, and Kriemhild swears undying revenge. She gets it by marrying Attila the Hun and luring Hagen and his cohorts...
...ease tension in the Formosa area," said Communist Chou En-lai in a speech broadcast from Peking last week, "the-Chinese Government is willing to sit down and enter into negotiations with the U.S. Government . . . The Chinese people have two possible means to liberate Formosa, namely by war or by peaceful means. The Chinese people are willing to strive for the liberation of Formosa by peaceful means, so far as it is possible." This was substantially what Communist Chou had said after Bandung last month and, with its familiar qualifying clauses, seemed hardly calculated to advance the chances...
...en-Provence, France, already a center for painters, added music...
...francs or those repatriated from the uncertainty of Indo-China, they furiously bought stocks, driving the market to dizzy heights. Stock-exchange volume doubled in 1954, added still another 50% this year, soared with every scrap of good news. Powered by Esso Standard's oilfield discovery at Parentis-en-Born near Bordeaux (which nearly doubled France's domestic oil production), Esso stock went up from 7,000 to 90,000 francs in less than a year. Other shares rode along, though many paid only 2% in dividends and some as little...