Word: levelation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seesaw. Uneven but amusing and touching two-character tale of a split-level, ghost-ridden love affair...
...recent referendum]: at this moment, the man De Gaulle is, in himself, the nation . . . One is now Gaullist in the same way that one is French." Tunisia's President Bourguiba declared that "the words proclaimed by De Gaulle have never before been said. On the political level, they are something...
Above the harsh noise of Communist China's bold new effort to reduce an entire people to the level of robots (TIME, Oct. 20) came the nightingale song of Radio Peking: "The people's communes are paradises. Manpower and material resources are more than in heaven. Industry and agriculture leap forward together, and one year equals thousands of years in the past...
...better colleges, including Columbia, came to be limited to students whose secondary-school preparation included these stepped-up requirements, it would not be very long until schools, parents and students accepted and adjusted to them. College work could then begin at a genuinely 'higher educational' level, with corresponding upgrading throughout the entire four years...
Despite the comeback of U.S. industry, signs of more inflation have yet to appear in the economy. The Labor Department reported last week that the consumer price index, which fell in August, stayed level in September, at 123.7% of the 1947-49 average. The Commerce Department also found the upturn still going strong. It noted that "the more volatile indicators have been advancing for several months, and those which usually lag are now showing signs of improvement." Items...