Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure we are." The rocket kept soaring until it disappeared from sight out over the Atlantic. But an hour later Program Director Adolph K. Thiel, somber and red-eyed, told waiting newsmen the unhappy news: "We didn't make it. Something happened. We don't know what...
...most other Christian groups." The Catholic bishops' position, said Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, would "condemn rapidly increasing millions of people in less fortunate parts of the world to starvation, bondage, misery and despair." Bishop Pike, himself a convert from Roman Catholicism, demanded to know if the Catholic bishops' policy "is binding on Roman Catholic candidates for public office...
Closing the debate, Nehru first gave support and tribute to Krishna Menon as a man who was sometimes wrong ("I know his faults"), but who had, nevertheless, "the deepest patriotism." Of himself, Nehru said dramatically: "If this house thinks my manner of carrying on in this situation is not adequate, then the honorable members are free to choose another Prime Minister." The result was a thunderous voice vote of confidence which drowned out the one or two "Noes" of stubborn dissenters...
...become teachers, most of the 29 men gave up higher-paying jobs. Ernest Knight, 43, has six children, earned $2,800 a year as a textile salesman. His income for the next two years will be $588, and he has sold his car to help squeak by ("I know I've made the right decision"). A father of two, David Miller, 37, not only sold his grocery store, but got his wife to attend college as well. "We're budgeted to the last penny," says he. "Our kids will get threepenny ice-cream cones instead of sixpenny ones...
Under its present editor, Donald Tyerman, 51, who took Crowther's place when Crowther became managing director in 1956, the Economist cleaves to the course set by Founder Wilson. "If," said the Economist a century ago, "we know that a nation is capable of enduring continuous discussion, we know that it is capable of practicing, with equanimity, continuous tolerance." Continuous-and highly intelligent-discussion is the Economist's contribution to Britain and to journalism...