Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, as the reciprocal-trade program moved toward the House floor, leaders of both parties were industriously counting House noses -and the future of liberalized foreign trade as a vital U.S. answer to Communist economic aggression hung in the balance...
...solved the political conflicts among its citizens by settling for a government without a head -a government in which no single group could ever acquire enough power and responsibility to carry out a consistent long-term national policy. The bourgeois and petty bourgeois "republicans," who believed that the supreme end of social life was the self-gratification of the individual citizen, were left free to evade their taxes and pursue their pleasures. Yearners after glory and national prestige -mostly nostalgic royalists -were left free to expand the French empire and carry out France's "civilizing mission" among the Annamese...
Mysterious Withdrawal. At the ceremony's end the crowd swept up the steps of the huge courtyard before the nine-story, glass-fronted Government General building, to be met by a charge of security police who, with clubs and tear gas, twice drove the crowd back. Only the students from the lycees, the young toughs in tight blue jeans and sweatshirts, a few ex-paratroopers still wearing their red, green or blue berets, seemed ready for another clash with police...
...week's end more and more shopkeepers began raising their shutters, and in the countryside rival tribesmen took up arms to help fight the rebel Druses. The government, growing bolder, made so many arrests that movie houses had to be commandeered for auxiliary jails. Some 12,000 Syrians were transported to the border and dumped into Syria. But the Chamoun government, still unable to assert authority in many places, had yet to round up any opposition leaders, and some observers began to say that the crisis might just peter out in victory for nobody, but at the cost...
...time was a disappointment to Elliott. With no one pushing him, he complained, he had "faded a little" toward the end. All he had done was run a 3:57.8 mile, his fourth under four minutes and the second fastest ever. Only Britain's Derek Ibbotson. who last year was clocked in 3:57.2, has done better. But Ibbotson's time, like Elliott's, may never be accepted by the International Amateur Athletic Federation because both marks were made with the aid of "pacers.'' The world's record is still held by Australia...