Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendship with America," he said. Last week, as Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly and Jordan's young King Hussein gathered in Cairo to hear his report, Saud was a frank advocate of the U.S. position, said an informed Egyptian. "Saud spoke repeatedly of the Eisenhower era. He said it was a great new chance for the Arab cause...
...downsliding economy. Spaniards noted that four of the 18 Cabinet members belong to Opus Dei, an ascetic Roman Catholic secular order which leans more on the Vatican than on the controversy-torn Spanish clerical hierarchy and has long campaigned against graft in government. Said Franco: "They bring a New Era to Spain...
...study of radioactivity in foods, the Food and Drug Administration hit upon a rare source of canned foods unquestionably packed before the advent of the atomic era: supplies cached in the Antarctic by the Shackleton expedition (1908-09) and the Scott expedition (1910-13). While waiting for the arrival of the long-buried samples, the Government scientists went to work on early-arriving samples of powdered milk left by Rear Admiral Byrd at Little America...
...general company (Dan Dailey, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Rush) is quite pleasant, and Tony Randall in his best scene provides a hilarious footnote to an era in which the lounge lizard has been replaced by the couch cowboy...
...Author Schlesinger damages his own case, for even Roosevelt admirers are bound to be distressed by the way in which Schlesinger weights his scales with selected evidence to drag down businessmen and to hoist F.D.R. No one can reasonably deny the errors and terrors of the era. But in Schlesinger's version, financiers and members of the Hoover Administration almost without exception are boobs or crooks or both; their reluctance to recognize the Depression for what it was, and to force more stringent Government action, is attributed to nothing more than blindness or greed. And Schlesinger...