Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, the key pro-Nasser play that cut off 60% of the Middle East oil flowing to Europe by other routes than Suez. The colonel is all for Nasser and all for the Soviets. Last week Washington confirmed news reports that Soviet arms have lately been arriving in "a steady flow" at the rate...
...tiny Lebanon, most prosperous of Arab countries, a wave of bombings shook Beirut in protest of President Camille Chamoun's refusal to break relations with Britain and France. The army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...
...knocking myself out every day for half the salary I received for doing a 12½-minute newscast." Winchell says that he really longs for the peace and quiet of his newscasts, "where I can sit down and not have to remember any cues or lines-jiggle the wireless key and get all that money for just telling a few lies." Is he planning another TV show? "Yes, a one-hour spectacular. The stars will...
...key to the individual's success in achieving a new and less stressful way of life, says Selye, lies in self-knowledge-insight into the particular factors that provoke stress in one's own case, from job insecurity to feeling unloved. A man can be drunk with his own hormones, according to Endocrinologist Selye, who adds: "This sort of drunkenness has caused much more harm to society than the other kind* ... In all our actions throughout the day we must consciously look for signs of being keyed up too much-and we must learn to stop in time...
...chling family is to the steel-rich Saar what the Fords are to Dearborn, Mich. Longtime producers of one-third of the Saar's steel, the Röchlings hold the key to the basin's rich economy, the deciding weight in the industrial balance of power between France and Germany. Both in 1919 and 1946, France took over the Röchling empire in an effort to swallow the Saar. Just 20 months ago Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay promised the French Senate, "The Röchlings will never return to the Saar." But six months after...