Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boast that Russia is first in the firmament, with its Lunik and its "mass-produced" intercontinental rockets, and his seven-year economic plan would make it first on earth. It closed with the cocky boss, an energetic 64, firing some of the roughest and rudest taunts that he has ever let fly at the West. In between, 86 Soviet delegates and 45 representatives of foreign Communist parties paid telling tribute to "the distinguished activity," "the tremendous organizing work," "the majestic firmness" of their leader, who beamed at the sycophant praise as broadly as ever Joseph Stalin...
...fide passport in that name. But one of anything is scarcely enough for a man like Hume: he soon had a second passport made out to "John Stephen Bird, company director, Liverpool." Thus equipped, Hume began appearing under various aliases in Montreal, Zurich, New York, Frankfort, Los Angeles, without ever being recognized. He spent most of the time in Switzerland, combining petty thievery with his courtship of auburn-haired Divorcee Trudi Sommer, 28, a Zurich beauty-shop owner. To lonely-hearted Trudi, Hume was Johnny Bird, a Canadian test pilot. At intervals, he would vanish mysteriously on "business trips...
Owlish Cellist Pablo Casals, 81, ventured a hopeful thought on a species of U.S.-bred cacophony scarcely ever ventured on his mellow instrument: "Rock 'n' roll is a disease that shall pass away as quickly as it was created. It is a sad thing for your country. It is nothing, nothing...
...green, 450-mile finger veined by rivers and stretching half the length of the state, nothing buzzes quite so persistently as the Bees. Last week the industrious hum of the three Bee papers (combined circulation 284,755), issuing from hives in Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto, rose louder than ever. For the first time in its 102 years of publication, the Sacramento Bee came out with a Sunday edition...
Custodian of the Bees is a 61-year-old spinster so shy that none of her papers have ever printed her picture. "Newspaper people should stay on the sidelines," says Eleanor McClatchy, president of McClatchy Newspapers since the death in 1936 of her father, C. K. (for Charles Kenny) McClatchy, who took over the Sacramento Bee in 1883 on the death of his father, James McClatchy. Eleanor McClatchy's guide is a codicil to her father's will: "I want the McClatchy newspapers ... to maintain ever their freedom of action and their absolute independence...