Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political leadership. Time and again he suffered setbacks. At one point, frustrated beyond endurance, he withdrew from his friends, took on Scotch as his closest companion, even talked of quitting Congress. Yet in the ambition that drives him and in the absolute determination not to fail again lies the key to Charlie Halleck's success as legislative leader...
Bombs & Stumps. Kistiakowsky's biggest job came in 1944, when he went to Los Alamos as a key man on the Manhattan Project. His assignment was to provide the explosive power for triggering the first atomic bomb, assemble the bomb so that it would go off. On the eve of the first test at Alamogordo, Kistiakowsky, another scientist and a military police officer with a submachine gun guarded the bomb throughout the night...
...Reds' national committee met and drafted a soothing statement that "the key approach continues to be defending the revolution." Castro himself said nothing, but the sugar union leaders were obviously doing his bidding. While soft on individual Communists, Castro apparently fears that if the Reds gain a wide popular base, such as labor, they will challenge his position as people's hero...
Overtures. Key sentence was a cautiously worded expression of "Christian concern that the day may soon come when our Government, in concert with other free nations, may enter with honor into normal relations with the government of the Chinese people...
Sugar-company lawyers puzzled over the law's 66 sections all week, but the key language was unequivocal and plunged Cuba down a land-reform road where many Latin American hopes have been dashed (see box). No corporation can own land in Cuba unless all stockholders are Cuban; no foreigner may buy or inherit land. If U.S. sugar companies do not sell out within a year, their land will be expropriated and paid off in 20-year government bonds bearing 4.5% interest. According to Castro's estimate, made on a television show, the bond payments would range from...