Word: haven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...while the Cahills paid bills and made plans, the railroad went back to the Supreme Court. Exercising a seldom-used right, the New Haven attorneys asked the court to recall its earlier decision. One day last week the highest court in the land, in a 5-4 decision, reversed its decisions of last November and January. It sent the Cahill case back to the appellate court to determine whether the trial judge had improperly admitted evidence of previous accidents at the point where Cahill was injured. When the word reached Cahill he blurted: "Oh my God, you mean they...
...Seized Thought. For many of the nation's lawyers, the sudden reversal was almost as much of a shock as it was for Cahill (who was somewhat comforted by a New Haven public-relations man's statement that the road is not "interested in making things hard for Cahill. I wouldn't think we'd take his house away from him."). The view of many men of the law was summed up by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who, in a seven-page dissenting opinion, made his key point through the words of an earlier...
...buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer to the canapés, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov chatted with U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen. Khrushchev ribbed Zhukov for helping himself "as though you haven't eaten for a day." Said Bohlen: "But the marshal is much thinner, now that he's lost 1,200,000 troops." A ripple of stout laughter floated across the room...
...have a common military policy without also having a common basic foreign policy. But no steps have been taken to stress the political role of NATO. When NATO was created there was serious danger of a hot war. Now the Russians have postponed this idea, but they haven't given it up. They concentrate now on political warfare and on infiltration. NATO must ad just itself to this new situation...
...that conflicts with his shy appearance. "You might as well do things that amuse you. It takes me a long time to write a piece of music-anywhere from months to years-and simple ideas would bore me before I got through. Anyway, I want to invent something I haven't heard before...