Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the strike meetings. Are there strikes now? No. Because workers and unions and the government have one thought-because in what other country would the government announce that wages would be raised and the working day reduced without pressure? In capitalist countries they would need to fight for this...
Like other bombers, the B70 has an advantage over missiles: it can be recalled, recovered and redirected, can seek out mobile ground targets, and if it misses them, come back to fight again. But the Valkyrie's futuristic design embraces qualities far beyond the capabilities of a mere manned weapon. At its Mach 3 speeds and ultra-high altitudes, it makes an inexpensive, i.e., retrievable, launching platform for earth satellites: it could give the space-probing Xi$ a flashing running start, or fire a 9,500-lb. payload into a 300-mile orbit, or even substitute as a first...
...jabbed perfunctorily at the tender old question of Red China's admission to the U.N. But this year India's V. K. Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...
Another election imponderable as the race tightened was the weight of the third-party vote. "Get out and get in," cried Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond to the candidates his party dispatched to fight in some 200 (out of 630) constituencies. The Liberals slugged hardest at the Tories' Suez failure and at "police state" colonial methods in Kenya and Nyasaland; they were also the only party campaigning for British membership in the European Common Market. Grimond & Co. did not expect to add more than half a dozen parliamentary seats to their present six, could only hope to exert real...
Monroney and others are prepared to fight hard for the measure, but the "What do we have to do with abroad?" mentality of certain Congressmen may make their job a tough one. It would be unfortunate if such latter day isolationism should prevent U.S. participation in the IDA, one of the soundest development ideas ever prepared...