Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summrrsmanship. At week's end it was uncertain when the modified summit meeting would be held, or where, or what nations would participate, or even whether any such meeting would take place at all. It all depended pretty much on Khrushchev's next note. Washington thought the U.S. could be ready before mid-August, and regular members of the Security Council were expected to discuss the procedural possibilities this week. One possibility: the heads of state and the permanent representatives-among them the delegate of Free China in the absence of Chiang Kai-shek (who made no sound...
Just before the end of World War I. Ensign Holloway reported for duty aboard the destroyer Monaghan, operating out of Brest, France. His first memorable contribution to the war effort: his first show of the Holloway style. "They never told me," he said, "about the lack of space on destroyers. My baggage filled the whole wardroom. I was a very unpopular young officer for that." And through steady performance aboard destroyers, cruisers and battleships and as a staff flag lieutenant in the Navy's lean, between-the-wars years-for eleven years, from 1922 to 1933, he stayed...
...Means, one of the best of the set. A bedroom comedy, complete with burglar, about a pair of upper-class house guests, out of funds, whose hostess wants to get rid of them, it is consistently funny. But why do they omit the final line? Without it, the end falls flat...
Leading the Blind. Witnesses told the committee of cases throughout the U.S., mostly involving the old, the infirm, the widowed, or those who had simply reached the end of the line. Another soft touch is the blind: they cannot read the contracts. Said Donald McClure, California's assistant real-estate commissioner: "This is one of the most vicious rackets we've ever had to deal with...
...plot, spooned out sparingly at the end like onion soup after a champagne-sodden night, concerns a vice ring, but there is not enough of it to spoil a delightful...