Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonial Office jargon, this is known as "Creative Abdication": by showering concessions on the Africans instead of passing them out piecemeal, as in Malaya, the British hope to gain a friendly new Dominion. Nkrumah's attitude is: "Get out quick-but thanks for the memory...
...team must show well if it is to gain major Eastern recognition. Its only other well-attended meet so far has also been at Lyndonville...
...first place. He had to break a Brown record in the 220 free-style to do it. Brisco was submerged twice by Dave Hedberg--who will be swimming against him today, incidentally--and Wills lost the medley as Marv Sandler broke a Harvard College record to gain first place. Sandler will also be swimming today...
...survive in Italy only if the majority gets a chance to govern, free from parliamentary harassment from representatives who are sworn enemies of parliamentary democracy. He fears in particular a cynical coalition of Italy's Communists (the strongest Red party in Western Europe, and the only one to gain strength at the polls in recent years) and the rising neoFascists. "To create in Italy a situation similar to that in France," warned Premier de Gasperi, ". . . would open the road to a deadly adventure...
...demonstration of how much deviltry can go into the fighting of devils, The Crucible is often grimly instructive. Many of its scenes have real theatrical power. The play at its best is hard-hitting sociological melodrama, though even here it would gain from fewer and more sharply aimed blows. And helped by performances from Arthur Kennedy, Walter Hampden, Beatrice Straight, E. G. Marshall and others, Jed Harris has staged the play with consistent though conventional vigor...