Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tremendous" Sums. Keeping the peace today, said the President, calls for resolution, wisdom, steadiness and unremitting effort. The U.S. can put no confidence in treaties with the Communists except where such treaties are ''self-enforcing." The U.S. has therefore mustered air, sea. land forces that are a powerful deterrent to general or limited war. has linked up with nearly 50 nations in collective security agreements. The problem: U.S. spending on national defense, atomic energy, foreign military aid will, by the President's budget (to be presented to Congress next week), total $47 billion in fiscal...
...broad-boulevarded tropical city of Leopoldville one day last month, a security officer handed the Belgian Governor General a piece of paper with a song written on it. The composer was unknown, but the song itself was being sung at nationalist meetings throughout the territory. "Congoland, land of our forebears," ran the opening lines, "we will fight for your freedom, if blood must run in streams." Last week, after the worst eruption the Congo had seen in a decade, blood did in fact run in Léopoldville...
...Brussels the reaction was stunned surprise. For 50 years the Belgians have-with model efficiency and unruffled complacency-run the land, 80 times the size of their own. that was once the private property of King Leopold II. They kept the 12.8 million blacks strictly segregated and denied them the vote-but then, the 107,000 white residents had no vote either, and paternalism had many advantages for all. It was not until 1957 that the Congolese, black or white, were allowed to take part in their first municipal elections, and the government has never clearly said how much more...
...ache in the jawbone, weedy Pianist Van Cliburn dropped in on a Tucson dentist for some overdue drilling, canceled all concerts until the throb in his ivories dwindled to a pianissimo. Mumbled Van, his gift for hyperbole undiminished: "I'm thrilled to death it happened here, in the land...
...when he was an assistant professor at Clark University in Worcester, he built solid-propellant rockets, and won a $5,000 grant from the Smithsonian Institution. In 1919 the Smithsonian published a brief Goddard report which predicted, among other things, that a multistage rocket weighing only ten tons could land a small payload on the moon...