Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed and coordination of the Soviet Union's reaction to Big Four talks showed that the Kremlin's big men had calculated their moves and primed their propaganda long in advance. Hoping to gain the conference initiative with what countries they had on hand, the Russians: ¶ Signed the treaty making Austria independent and neutral, and recommended Austria's way as everyone's way. ¶ Set up a formal organization of U.S.S.R. and satellites' armies, in a kind of anti-NATO...
...Bevan rebels. The Tories could point to the highest level of prosperity in Britain's history, achieved while shucking off the controls which war and Socialist experimenting had imposed. The News Chronicle's Gallup poll last week showed a 2½% edge for the Tories, a gain of 2% from late April. But above all, Eden was able to kick off his campaign with a promise of the long-awaited "parley at the summit." "If the Tories cannot win this election," said Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, "then they can never...
...Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis Rubin has made probably the most clear-headed statement of Wolfe's place in American fiction. With reserve and some brilliance, Rubin walks a steady line between the idolaters and the iconoclasts, and from his steady course, Thomas Wolfe's reputation will gain a great deal of stability.Wolfe in Berlin: "You Can't Go Home Again" From the Thomas Wolfe Collection of William B. Linsdom--Houghton Library...
...announced yesterday that beginning next January, therefore, and running through August, the School will offer an intensified eight-month program to prepare their returning students for management responsibility. The revised program will be a complete unit leading to a certificate but men still continue work for another year to gain an M.B.A. degree...
...Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis Rubin has made probably the most clear-headed statement of Wolfe's place in American fiction. With reserve and some brilliance, Rubin walks a steady line between the idolaters and the iconoclasts, and from his steady course, Thomas Wolfe's reputation will gain a great deal of stability.Wolfe in Berlin: "You Can't Go Home Again" From the Thomas Wolfe Collection of William B. Linsdom--Houghton Library...