Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important as its parliamentary procedures. When Knowland first became majority leader, Lyndon Johnson once dropped by his office for a drink and a chat. Knowland had one bottle on hand, which he kept in a refrigerator. He had no corkscrew, and his ice trays were frozen fast from long disuse. Bill struggled futilely for 15 minutes, trying to get the cork out of the bottle. Lyndon finally dragged him upstairs to his own office-"where we know how to open bottles." Now Knowland keeps a well-stocked refrigerator for thirsty colleagues. Such concessions to Senate society have helped...
France is still almost obsessively committed to the proposition that possession of Algeria is essential if France is to maintain its status as a world power. At the moment, the U.S. is unwilling to press the French too hard or too fast. Both Tunisia and Morocco, though nominally independent, are economically dependent on French subsidies to keep their governments operating, need time to develop their own resources and tax systems. Bourguiba says that he is unwilling to make any formal commitment to the West until his country is fully independent in fact...
...days last week two powerful German lifting craft and a pair of tugs cleared a passage past the dynamited bridge with so little apparent difficulty that a disquieted Egyptian army officer watching from the bank remarked: "By Allah, we did not expect them to work that fast...
...Fast-growing Trans-Canada Air Lines, the world's eighth largest airline in passenger-miles flown, made its biggest splash last week by announcing that it had ordered 20 Vanguard turboprop airliners from Britain's Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. Cost: $67.1 million-the largest single dollar order placed in Britain since...
...traditional awe of officialdom. Sponsored by British occupation officials, Augstein's magazine blasted Allied Obrigkeiten so vociferously that he was forced to get new backing, change the magazine's name from Diese Woche (This Week). Starting out with $5,000 in January 1947, Der Spiegel grew fast...