Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the young giant was almost ready to go home. But what to do? Dr. Shimizu would not let him join a stage troupe (too insecure). Yoshimitsu was getting both muscle-building and morale-building exercises to help him ignore the stares of passersby. Said he: "I hate to leave this wonderful hospital, but I am a grownup now, so I must face it." At 7 ft. 7 in. he is indeed grown up, but mercifully, he will probably grow no more...
...stamp out "revisionism" in the satellites, and particularly in Wladyslaw Gomulka's Poland, the one nation in the Soviet bloc that has managed to achieve some scant room for maneuver within the bonds of Russian domination. With their customary stubbornness, the Poles had at first refused to join in the general satellite rejoicing over the Hungarian executions. Speaking in Poznan, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki said that Gomulka agreed to visit Budapest two months ago only after Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar assured him that the final disposition of the Nagy group would be "bloodless." The Secretariat of the Polish...
...Spare. An outspoken advocate of New Dealish reforms in Italy, Fanfani promptly looked left. Aided by Italy's Christian Democratic President Giovanni Gronchi, Fanfani won agreement from Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats to join him in a left-of-center anti-Communist coalition. The Christian Democrats' 272 votes and the Social Democrats' 22 votes still fell four short of a majority in the Chamber. With the votes of one French-speaking and three German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement...
...U.S.S.R. satellites in order to set up "centrifugal as opposed to centripetal forces" and to "awaken new interest in these countries to pull away from Moscow." Both House and Senate unanimously condemned Soviet "barbarism and perfidy" in the Hungarian executions and called on free parliaments everywhere to join in denouncing them...
...bright as a child that his instructors in Tiflis sent him to Rome when he was only eleven to study at the Urban College of the Propagation of the Faith. The college rejected him because of his youth, but before he was sent home little Lazarus was permitted to join a group audience with St. Pope Pius X (canonized in 1954), who noticed him and predicted: "This small Armenian boy will render great services to the church." Lazarus was allowed to enter the college after...