Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, however, was now forgotten. "There's nothing like the threat of annihilation," said one Laborite, "to bring chaps together." In a quiet meeting of the parliamentary Labor party, ousted Bevan was taken back into the fold without a whisper of opposition, and in the party manifesto outlining Labor's platform, Nye Sevan's stand against the nuclear bomb took first place, followed by the usual biting condemnation of everything Tory...
...coasting along with an annual sales volume of $26.9 million, mostly in submarines. Since then, he has picked up aircraftmakers Canadair Ltd. in Canada and giant Consolidated Vultee, changed the company name, expanded into guided missiles, atomic research and atomic submarines (the U.S.S. Nautilus), and boosted volume 25-fold (to $649 million last year). Last week Jay Hopkins put another feather in another hat. He announced that General Dynamics will diversify still more by taking over 61-year-old Stromberg-Carlson Co., which does a $65 million annual business in radio and TV sets, telephone switchboards and public-address systems...
Tomorrow night a College newspaper will fold up, as it has every spring since 1951, and as it did in the only year of its existence before that, 1940. Early or late Sunday morning, depending on when he sets up, every freshman living in the Yard will find the seventeenth issue of the mimeographed Yardling has been tossed at his door the night before. But for the rest of the year '58 will have to depend on extra-Yard sources for news, because the freshman newspaper's five-man board of editors, bowing to final exams, lack of personnel...
...almost five years scholars have been precariously straddling the proverbial frying pan's edge. From without, legislative committees and the public press have attacked members of university communities collectively as communists or "pinkos." Inside the academic fold, more subtle pressures from administrators and alumni boards have often forced teachers to restrain their feelings about academic freedom in order to retain their jobs. Tactically compelled to cooperate with legislative committees, the academic community has, nevertheless, found new strength within its own bailiwick. The recent action of prominent professors, three of them from Harvard, in professionally boycotting the University of Washington...
...arrangements. Most of the others shared Egypt's irritation but demurred at going so far. Instead, they persuaded Nasser to adjourn the session while a planeload of Arab League representatives flew off to Baghdad to try to argue Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said back into the fold...