Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordered Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy to call in British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia, notify him that the U.S. was weary of continuing British complaints about the high-level flights-flown in the interests of the West-and intended to continue them...
...note he invited the ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Democrat Fulbright, Wisconsin Republican Alex Wiley-to accompany him to next month's foreign ministers' conference with the U.S.S.R. at Geneva. Fulbright was skeptical, since he regards the foreign ministers' meeting as a working-level session, but hinted broadly that he would like to go to the summit...
...permanent historical dramas, e.g., The Lost Colony, on Roanoke Island, which yearly lure thousands of tourists for a night's pageantry. The community music bureau whipped up such interest that the North Carolina Symphony annually barnstorms the whole state; the Institute of Government became the adviser to every level of government...
...Hayes (Kim's mother in the play). Fed up with the lingering flap, Actress Hayes, in a letter last week to weekly Variety, said: "There were times, late in the run, when Kim would have tried the patience of a saint, with her striving for [an] opening-night level of performance-even on rainy Thursdays. But nothing will wipe out the shining memory of ... the all too rare thrill of working with a perfect actress...
...whether he has enough to last through some particular crisis. This behavior is followed closely by drinking before breakfast (more than 95% of all alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally admit to himself that he is really "drunk." It is hard to deny; he can no longer control his behavior, is beset by marriage, money...