Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relationships are shot through with paradox. Members may declare a republic or elect a king of their own (as in Malaya). Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France. Without consulting other members, Commonwealth nations may go to blows with outsiders (Britain v. Egypt) or with each other (India v. Pakistan over Kashmir). Britain welcomes almost any citizen of the Commonwealth to its shores. But Australia and Canada virtually exclude nonwhites, and Ghana and Nigeria forbid white men to own land...
...longtime (1932-57) chairman of the U.S. Communist Party. William Z. Foster, now 78 and so ill that he has never been tried on his 1948 indictments for conspiracy, asked a Manhattan court to lift the raps on him or let him go to the Soviet Union anyway. His reason: medical treatment costs too much...
...bestselling Anatomy of a Murder, courtly old (68) Boston Barrister Joseph Welch good-naturedly allowed: "They lied to me. They told me when I became an actor that it would be fun and easy. Fun it was. Easy it was not. The only way I could be persuaded to go back into films would be if someone wrote a part that would fit me as well as this...
...recent article cited the high cost of U.S. medical care, but made no mention of compensating health insurance programs. The author also deplored the high tuition at Harvard, said nothing about tuition-free state and municipal schools, left the impression that only the children of the rich can go to college...
...suffer from poverty. From such isolated instances, it is no trick for the Soviet press to jump to the sweeping generalization and, if necessary, to the outright lie ("While hungry American children look for a slice of stale bread, the stores are crammed with food which is left to go...