Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nightly lacing. Six miles south of Quemoy's shallow coast we dropped anchor, and three scuttle-nosed landing barges approached LSM 249. The sea was wicked, and the three landing craft had a hard time coming alongside. The transfer started about 12:30, but by 12:45 only half of us newsmen and 20 troops had managed to crawl down the nets and jump into the pitching boats. At that moment shooting broke out all around...
...case of Nikolai Bulganin: Feb. 8, 1955-Named Premier of Russia after long years of service as a commissar and then a marshal whose main job was to ensure party control of the army. Became the lesser half of the traveling team of B. and K. in glad-handing tours to Red China, India and Britain. March 27, 1958-Kicked out as Premier after siding with Molotov against Khrushchev in a Central Committee showdown. Four days later appointed chairman of the Soviet State Bank...
...President Milton S. Eisenhower (TIME, Sept. 8) said that one reason U.S. educational standards are uncomfortably low is that some schools teach too much. "We know colleges that teach from 3,000 to 4,000 courses," he explained. Higher educational institutions should "cut the number of courses in half and concentrate on those they do with distinction. No college can be all things to all people...
...Byzantine bureaucracy of the Czarist system and the paternal absolutism of the Romanovs, which was inherited by the Russian revolutionaries and became "the core of [their] mind." Finally, Moorehead stresses the importance of police socialism-the system by which police agents became party leaders and all lived in a "half world of bribery and twisted loyalties...
Full Cycle. With his journalist's eye, Author Moorehead does not overlook the story's gaudy set pieces, including the mass funeral of revolutionaries at which 1,000,000 people, or half the population of Petrograd, marched in silence (the dead were buried without religious services, but next day. in a shamefaced gesture, priests were brought to say prayers). And there is also the unforgettable picture of Lenin being transported-in Churchill's phrase "like a plague bacillus"-across Germany in the famous sealed train. Lenin made his associates retire to the train toilet to smoke...