Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finally, now that the Mau Mau are quelled, the Kenya natives are friendlier than the population in Cyprus. Accordingly, Sandys returned last month convinced that Britain's main Middle East base should be moved south from Cyprus to Kenya, and Cyprus kept only as a bomber base in event of war with Russia...
...smaller numbers than he expected. On the other hand, if the halfhearted ex-Peronistas adopt the hard core's self-defeating plan to cast blank ballots, they may paradoxically help Aramburu by letting a pro-reform coalition get balance-of-power control of the assembly. In that event, the People's Radicals would probably lead the way in fierce haggling and vote-trading and come out with at least part of the Aramburu program...
...tracing its hero's rise from beer-delivery boy to the threshold of greatness, the film applies whitewash so thickly that the coated object loses all shape. About the only big event in Presley's real life not touched upon by Loving You is his invasion of Hollywood. This is understandable. To be true to its own brand of ballyhoo, the film would have to show Elvis-modest and shy fellow that he is-rejecting all offers to lend himself to Hollywood commercialism...
...spiritual event can ever be wholly represented in statistics or evaluated at the time it happens. The impact of Graham's preaching may bear immeasurable fruit months and years hence, in unforeseen ways. But at present, in concrete, reportable terms, Crusader Graham's effect on the big city is negligible...
...threatened him with "jail in 24 hours." but Weir stood firm even under desperate White House coaxing. His hot court battle against a key NRA clause forbidding company unions ended in victory. A federal judge held that NRA applied only to interstate commerce and did not cover Weirton, an event widely held as the beginning of the end for NRA. To this day, Weirton is one of the last few steel strongholds with a company union...