Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council Russia accepted with uncharacteristic calm the proposition that its cherished veto power did not apply to the dispatch of a U.N. team to investigate Communist aggression in Laos. And from Moscow came a determinedly noncommittal Kremlin announcement on the border dispute between Red China and India. Clearly concerned lest Mao Tse-tung's aggressiveness sabotage Khrushchev's dream of establishing "Big Two" relations with the U.S.-and probably concerned, too, at the setback to Soviet wooing of the "uncommitted" nations-the U.S.S.R. for the first time in its 42-year history failed to rally full-throated...
...frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before it won a permit "for adults only." For French adults, that is. Vadim was denied an export permit, lest his picture corrupt less civilized foreigners...
Izmir, took an inglorious stand against U.S. Air Force Sergeants McCuistion and King, lest the brutal and ill workings of status-of-forces agreements be exposed...
Boffo. Though Heimrich named no specific films, lest the notoriety make them boffo at the box office, his target was obvious. Such pictures as Cat Girl and Cry Tough are loaded with unnecessary rough stuff; scenes from The Horse Soldiers, Anatomy of a Murder and It Started with a Kiss boast overt, even sniggering sex. The wonder is that the Protestants have waited so long to draw a bead...
...already distinguishable from his New Deal daddy by the fact that he is not a big spender. He keeps a careful dollars-and-cents account of his own appropriations record to show the folks at home, and casts a watchful eye on the legislative expense accounts of other liberals, lest he be typed as a too-big spender. He also worries about job security (says Brademas: "It's a matter of survival. We want to stay around. We aren't here just for an experiment"). Some bubbles in the Democratic ferment...