Word: flooringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the Suez Canal. Indignantly, Golda Meir reported that the Danish freighter Inge Toft, which was stopped by the Egyptians last May with a cargo originating in Israel, "is being held to this day at Port Said." The United Arab Republic's Farid Zeineddine promptly asked for the floor and, hardily ignoring the U.N. ruling and the verdict of two Arab-Israeli wars, shouted: "The question of free passage through the Suez Canal is an aspect of the Palestine question"-i.e., the continued existence of Israel...
...Americans." Mingling on the dance floor of the Whisky a Gogo at Cannes or in a bull session at the University of Geneva (where less than half the students are Swiss), the new Europeans look alike, regardless of nationality. And they look quite unlike their parents. Middle-aged Germans, with a mixture of pride and apprehension, refer to their long-legged, Levi-clad kids as "our young Americans." It is an apt description; today, for the first time in Europe's history, young Europeans, like young Americans, have a continent for a playground and the money in their pockets...
...Nikita Khrushchev. In the last nine months, the Reds have thrown up a spanking new Peking railroad station, capable of handling 200,000 passengers a day, and they boast that they are erecting enough other buildings to give the capital a total of 398 million sq. ft. of new floor space-more than 14 times that of all the office buildings put up in Manhattan since the war. In a three-day cleanup campaign, 1,000,000 Peking residents claim to have collected refuse, dirt and mud sufficient to build a wall "three feet wide and 21 feet high, running...
...Aalto remains a prickly individualist who drinks hard, works all hours of the day and night. Once while designing Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without a word, thinking furiously, finally dashed off the drawings. Believing that "the Creator created paper for making architectural drawings," Aalto refuses to open mail, replies only to telegrams. Accepting a commission to act as a consultant to Helsinki's city planning commission, he insisted on a clause that the city fathers would not badger...
...extras. The Corvair handles so easily that it needs no power brakes or power steering, and its automatic shift, at $135, is $50 less than on Chevy models. Cole expects that many Corvair buyers will not even want the automatic shift, will prefer the stick shift on the floor to get back the "feel of driving." Thus the Corvair, with the minimum extras needed, will run several hundred dollars under the Biscayne, and as much as $2,000 under the most expensive car in Chevy's line, the Impala. One thing that will help Chevy salesmen is the fact...