Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diplomat in Washington one afternoon last week, twinkling Tourist Harry S. Truman volunteered that he had left his galoshes back in Independence, likely would not take his traditional morning walks along the capital's slush-puddled thoroughfares. Along with several score top-level Democrats, Truman was on hand for four days of meetings, lunches and fund-raisings that would kick off the Democrats' 1958 congressional campaign. As the opening whistle blew and the charges flew, it quickly became evident that Harry's galoshes were almost the only weapons that cocky Democrats had not moved in to toss...
...demanded his resignation. M'bida promptly accused Ramadier of trying to unseat him. Although his own Cameroons Democrats Group was outnumbered 48 to 19 in Parliament, M'bida tried to hold on with a one-party government. "I will take this to the highest level," he cried, and flew off to Paris...
...step dictated by the haunting need to avoid seeming "rigid" in the eyes of neutrals, allies and the soft-line camp at home. Since the Russians had already conceded that the U.S. insistence on advance preparations is "correct," Dulles' concession seemed to leave no barrier to ambassador-level discussions of an agenda for a summit meeting that Dulles had declared in advance to be "futile...
Smoke for Heat. Many fought back at the cold. Around the Lake Okeechobee area, vegetable growers tried desperately to warm the land by raising the level of water in the canals, or plowing soil loosely over young tomato plants for insulation. Citrus growers, their groves all but stripped of fruit and leaves, lit smudge pots, and when these gave out, blackened the sky by burning old auto tires. Preliminary estimates of the citrus-crop loss, on the low side, showed that the expected 142,500,000-box yield of oranges, grapefruit and tangerines has been cut back...
...pressure inside it to 8 Ibs.-just over half an atmosphere, normal for 18,000 ft. At the same time they kept Farrell's oxygen supply normal by raising the oxygen content of the air fed to him through air-conditioning leads until it was double the sea-level proportion. And Farrell...