Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Endlessly she nags her son, a dreamer trapped in a shipping clerk's job, to bring "a gentleman caller" to the house. At length he brings a warehouse co-worker (Kirk Douglas), an ambitious self-improver, glib, personable and halfsincere. Putting the best face on an uneasy situation, Douglas enchants the girl with compliments, a dance, a kiss. Then he dashes her by owning up to a fiancée and making an awkward exit...
...University lost two professors by death over the summer. Kirk Bryan, 62, professor of Physiography died of a heart attack on August 22 at Cody Wyoming; Harald M. Westergaard, 61, former Dean if the Graduate School of Engineering, and Gordon McKay, professor of Civil Engineering died on June 24 in Cambridge after an illness of several months...
...about to back the North Koreans openly. But Jacob Malik merely charged that the affair was one more "provocation" by U.S. "warmongers." In Moscow the next day, Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky tried to shift it from a U.N. to a Russo-American affair; he summoned U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk and tried to hand him a note alleging that eleven American warplanes had shot down an unarmed Soviet plane near the Russian naval base of Port Arthur...
...Kirk refused to take the message, and said it should be sent direct to U.N. Then the Russians delivered the note to the State Department in Washington by a messenger who spoke no English; it was promptly returned by a messenger who spoke no Russian. When U.N. ruled that the note was in its province, Malik did not challenge the ruling...
...University lost two professors by death over the summer. Kirk Bryan, 62, professor of Physiography died of a heart attack on August 22 at Cody Wyoming; Harald M. Westergaard, 61, former Dean if the Graduate School of Engineering, and Gordon McKay, professor of Civil Engineering died on June 24 in Cambridge after an illness of several months...