Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order flashed from Washington to U.S. embassies halfway around the world: stop the Wiima. A grimy Finnish tanker loaded at the Rumanian oil port of Constantsa the Wiima was en route for Red China with 7,000 tons of aviation kerosene-enough fuel to give Communist MIG jets over 5,000 flying hours...
After eight weeks' silence, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai last week made another pitch for a cease-fire in Korea, demanding "unconditional" resumption of the Panmunjom talks...
...Asked Congress to recognize "the importance of profitable and equitable world trade" by 1) extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 2) revising the cumbersome customs regulations, 3) en couraging a "hospitable climate" for U.S. private investment abroad...
Suddenly, like the Red Sea parting before the Israelites,the noisy crowd opened. Through a forest of waving palm branches, an open car bore a husky black man with fine-sculptured lips, melancholy eyes and a halo of frizzy black hair. The Right Honorable Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroom-ah), Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling...
...actual objects involved, he engaged the children in increasingly fluent chats about such commonplaces as food, animals, colors, clothing and toys. To measure progress, Rivera, showing a drawing of a man, would say: "¿Esta es una madre?" Or sometimes he asked: "¿Servimos azúcar en los huevos?" (Shall we serve sugar on the eggs?). If anyone replied yes, Rivera would backtrack on the "lesson...