Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tests. Then last August President Eisenhower countered with his two-part proposal: Let's stop tests for one year on a trial basis, beginning Oct. 31, and make a start, in Geneva that very same day, toward working out a reliable test-detection system. The Russians suddenly found half a dozen reasons to attack the plan for a Geneva meeting. Last week the President turned the screw by calling upon the Soviet government to announce whether it would send a delegation to Geneva. The U.S. and British delegations, said Ike, would be there on schedule...
This fear came just as the British were celebrating, in mannerly fashion, the fact that for the first time in this century they succeeded in closing their trade gap in the first half of this year. Achieving a $383.6 million surplus of visible exports over imports was a satisfying feeling, even if the victory was apt to be temporary and was largely owed to the currently depressed price of raw materials. When the common market comes into being, however, they will be faced with a probable 29% duty on all English cars they hope to sell on the Continent. This...
...Lung. Even after General De Gaulle assured Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last month that he would lead France into the common market, as promised, the British remain half-convinced that De Gaulle is too visionary a leader to confine France in a Little Europe. They argue that the general is a deliberate man doing one thing at a time, first putting through his constitution, then holding elections, later laying down the lines of an Algerian settlement-and that he has yet to turn his magistral eye to economic problems...
...last Thursday 174 men hung their brass identity disks in the lamphouse of Cumberland No. 2 colliery and went below the quiet, tree-shaded streets of Springhill, Nova Scotia (pop. 7,000) into the deepest mine in North America. Before the shift ended, more than half were trapped underground in Canada's worst mine disaster in 44 years. At week's end twelve men were known dead, another 81 missing and presumed dead...
Drawing-room comedies, like drawing-room furniture, tend to be fragile and spindly, and with heavy handling The Pleasure of His Company might easily crash to bits. Happily, the authors have a feeling for tone, and have made the talk-half insulting and half elegant-a nice blend of spit and polish. The Donald Oenslager set is stylish. And with the help of a pleasant cast-Co-Author Skinner, Walter Abel, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Hart, George Peppard-Cyril Ritchard has carried things farther. Acting papa, he has the grace and precision of a lithe figure skater; directing the play...