Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slow-steady forward movement of the week was this: in Washington, London, Bonn and Paris, diplomats concerned were now convinced that a Foreign Ministers' conference will be held, probably in Geneva, and that it will begin, if Russia agrees, on May 11. It might last several months, and take up the whole German question ("Agenda isn't important," said one top Briton. "Once people get together, they usually discuss anything they want to"). It would probably fail...
Broken Strike. At the Soviet's 21st Party Congress in Moscow last January, slim, supple Red Boss Aidit could boast the best vote-getting Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, and he promised Nikita Khrushchev that Indonesian Reds would deliver 8,000,000 ballots if elections "were held tomorrow" (in the 1957 regional election the Reds became Indonesia's top party with 6,940,000 votes). All this had been done in a scant ten years, for Communist prestige in Indonesia was at zero after the Reds tried to pull a coup in 1948, which was easily crushed...
...nearly 3½ days the delicate radio signal came bravely down from space. At last it faltered. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's 85-ft. antenna at Goldstone Dry Lake, Calif, changed to a special filter and held the signal for a few minutes more. A receiver of General Electric's at Schenectady, N.Y. heard the signal intermittently for about an hour longer. Then it faded out. Some 410,000 miles away in outer space, Pioneer IV, the U.S.'s first man-made planet, wheeled on around the sun, but now silent forever...
Dark Coasting. For two nights Pioneer IV was held on its pad, once because of low clouds, and once because a radio instrument failed to function. On the third night the bird lifted off only 4 seconds late. The Jupiter fired for 182 seconds. As it passed through a high veil of cloud, a bluish ring formed around its orange tail flame like a ring around the moon. After 55 seconds of dark coasting, a faint light bloomed in the sky as the second-stage rockets fired. Then Pioneer IV disappeared...
...incantation") about her by which she managed to unite state, nation and the reformed religion in one person. How else explain the almost mystical response by the London mob to her coronation progress through the streets? Elizabeth, crying "God 'a mercy" to her people from beneath a canopy held by knights, and keeping a sprig of rosemary thrown into her chariot, was a superb performer in the stagecraft of statecraft. She was also, according to Biographer Jenkins, a beautiful woman with golden-brown eyes of great brilliance. "Goddess, excellently bright," one ballad called...