Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rarely does one have the privilege of hearing the two greatest works for one medium on the same concert program. But the chance presented itself Monday evening, when the Summer School offered a concert by the Hamden Trio before a large Sanders Theatre audience...
...greatest continuing story of our day is the struggle between Communism and the Western forces of freedom and justice. Sometimes it flares into easily reportable crisis, sometimes it flickers into seemingly monotonous detail. Last week it took a new turn. Into the U.S. flew a man named Frol Kozlov, little known to the world. He is the Soviet Union's First Deputy Premier, the man who runs the internal affairs of the U.S.S.R. when Khrushchev is away, a key man in the cold war. Not long after he began his remarkable visit, TIME decided that he should...
...their assault. They had picked a formidable foe: the continent's highest mountain, 20,320 ft. of rock, ice and swirling snow that Alaskan Indians call "the Great One." McKinley had been climbed 13 times since 1913, but never by the precipitous southern route, a feat considered the greatest pioneering climb remaining in North America...
...slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America in the world...
...than run again for Vice President. "I would have been like Henry Wallace if I had taken a Cabinet job," Nixon scornfully told Mazo later, and a friend added that Eisenhower's failure to pick Nixon as his running mate at the very start was "one of the greatest hurts of his whole career." For a while, Nixon seriously considered leaving public life...