Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaillard can survive until this week's end, when the National Assembly goes on Easter vacation, he can look forward to a full month in which to work toward a settlement with Tunisia, free of parliamentary interference...
...pushed back our chairs to end the interview. I asked Khrushchev if he knew yet how the election had come out in the Moscow district where he himself was a candidate for the Supreme Soviet. He did not know, but it looked as if he would have a majority of 99.5% "or perhaps 99.7% or 99.8%." I congratulated him on his showing; he nodded his thanks, and I congratulated the people of his district for having such an able candidate. He picked up this ball and ran with it: "Oh, we have a great many able candidates. That...
...civilized treatment on the strength of such chits of paper." Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself seemed equally unsatisfied to accept apologies as a substitute for immediate and constructive action. Last week he told his Parliament that India will break diplomatic relations with the Federation unless discrimination comes to an end...
Over the Horizon. At week's end the government advances continued with the seizure of the Rengat-Lirik area, headquarters of the big, U.S.-owned Standard Vacuum Oil Co. and the last major oil installation remaining in rebel hands. Colonel Simbolon had finally pushed through to the vital road junction of Pematang-siantar, joining up with Nangolan's battered forces from Lake Toba and the rebel column from Tapanuli. but he appeared more concerned with defense than with another attack on Medan...
...shady saloons and prostitutes strolled along unpaved streets, the Chicago Y. was founded by a group of reformers called the Chicago Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement, at a meeting over a lakefront store just one street away from gangland's "Hairtrigger Block." By the end of the first year, the organization had grown to 355 members, chalked up (thanks to traveling Preacher Henry Ward Beecher's drawing power) the tidy profit...