Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantages of being a Nehru-type "neutralist" were altogether too tempting for Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 34, whose intentions sometimes exceed his experience. His fragment of fractured French Indo-China, a country the size of Kansas, was in line to receive economic aid from both West and East. As usual, the U.S. was first with the mostest ($88 million in two years). New hotels, cabarets and bungalows gave a festive air to Pnompenh, the capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious...
...direction in which the satellite is fired (getting it aloft is known as Project Vanguard) will set it so that it passes over the earth every 100 minutes in rings which would not exceed the fortieth parallel either north or south. Thus it would go no further north than Philadelphia, although it could easily be seen from Cambridge under good observing conditions...
From the communiqués it was easy to believe that what had taken place in Egypt was "an immaculate war." In London Defense Minister Antony Head announced that British casualties "did not exceed 85, of whom not more than 20 were killed." And from the beginning the Anglo-French high command emphasized the careful concentration on purely military targets, the deliberate effort to spare Egyptian lives and property...
CARIBBEAN TRAVEL BOOM will send 1,250,000 tourists to West Indies this winter, up 48% from 1951. Area's dollar income from tourists this season will exceed $162 million...
...plurality for Ike and Dick. With a jolt, South Carolina Democrats noted that they had carried the state for Stevenson only because Republicans (with 73,000) and independents voting for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd without his authorization (86,000) divided among them a total big enough to exceed the Democratic vote. On behalf of his favorite son, Estes Kefauver, Politico J. Howard McGrath began a small salvage operation in Washington. Kefauver, he said, emerges from the carnage unscarred and running hard-"He's going in '60.'' Otherwise, said McGrath with an Irish grin...