Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written reply to Minnesota's Humphrey, Libby assured him that the Atomic Energy Commission's mistake was "entirely inadvertent." After questioning AEC officials, Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee issued a bipartisan verdict of acquittal. Declared North Carolina's Committee Chairman Carl Durham: AEC made an "honest error...
...possibly the stuffiest colony in the whole glamorous, dwindling British Empire. A gleaming, 25-ship fleet of the British and Canadian navies lay at anchor in Hamilton Harbor, and no less a personage than the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Selkirk, flew in to observe the joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle of Colonial Government Gazette. The general effect of this journalistic salute was approximately what might be achieved with a rather large stink bomb...
...thereby interrupting the convenient arrangement under which 50,000 troops and great quantities of materiel have been shipped into Algeria from France's Moroccan garrisons in the past two years. A week earlier, when news seeped out of the desert that French and Spanish forces were conducting a joint campaign to clear their Saharan possessions of Moroccan irregulars, Mohammed V launched on a tour of Morocco's southern border. Heretofore, Mohammed has kept himself carefully aloof from Moroccan extremists' attempts to snatch the potentially oil-rich Sahara away from France and Spain. At the oasis...
After twelve years as joint political columnists, Brothers Joseph and Stewart Alsop announced this week that their double-domed partnership will end March 1. Reason for the split: the Saturday Evening Post has offered Stewart Alsop, 43, newly created job that "I cannot refuse." As the Satevepost's contributing editor for national affairs, Stewart will still be based n Washington, but will travel widely on stories in the U.S. and abroad...
...streamed from the Eastern European ghettos to the garment district sweatshops 40 years ago; together, they still play gin rummy by summer and bake on the Miami beaches on vacations in winter. And together they fixed the wage scales. When a maker brought out a new dress, a joint management-union conclave decided what share of the wholesale price would go to the union's pieceworkers for cutting and sewing...