Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China, and flourished as a brilliant seat of Arab civilization, only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...
...Orthodox delegates held out to the end against the proposed merger between the W.C.C. and the International Missionary Council. Though they did not actually try to defeat the measure, they abstained from the vote that tentatively approved the plan, pending formal action by the W.C.C. General Assembly in New Delhi in 1961. Nevertheless, the friendly offices of pro-western Orthodox delegates made many Protestants more tolerant of Orthodoxy's ancient position. "It's a miracle that the Greek Church exists at all," said British-born Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India. "It's only...
...week's end, the Philharmonic flew off to Leningrad for six concerts, will go to Kiev for four, return to Moscow for three more. Then come Germany, France, Yugoslavia, Italy, Scandinavia, and finally on Oct. 10, London. If the reception is anything like those to date, New York will have trouble keeping the Philharmonic and its maestro at home from...
...wives who, with a bow to the women of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, gathered at a hall in McKeesport, Pa. over their husbands' protests, whipped off angry telegrams demanding that both union and management get cracking in negotiations. Said the women in a resolution: "Let's put an end to all the folderol...
...competitors, Daimler-Benz is out to grab a heftier share of the big-car market. The U.S. already buys 10% of its production, and its U.S. sales are racing 160% ahead of last year, are expected to top 15,000 cars by year's end. With 54% of its production going to 136 countries, Daimler-Benz has hiked worldwide sales 16% this year, expects to run up a 1959 sales figure of $600 million for the best year in its history...