Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bellingham's supermarketmen have been taking it longer than most because their city's lumber and fishing industries slipped early. Pilferage soon shot up over 1% of gross sales, took half of food retailing's narrow profit. The desperate grocers screwed up collective courage, got police to start arresting guilty customers and releasing their names to the press. Theirs was one of the few open moves against a corrosive crime that already takes at least $250 million worth of goods from U.S. supermarkets each year...
...sudden, it was the Russians who seemed to be dragging their feet on the road to the summit. The amount of space devoted to the summit in the Russian press has fallen off by 30%, and Russian diplomats no longer display their old volubility on the subject. Gromyko at first insisted on talking separately to the Moscow ambassadors from the U.S.. Britain and France, then refused to hold a joint preparatory conference unless Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia were allowed to sit in too. The air was now being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status...
...Camp. For all the defiant oratory, the spectacle of the Yugoslav David facing down the Soviet Goliath no longer stirred the West as it had in 1948. This time Western observers were less likely to overlook the fact that in his last speech to the congress, Tito was careful to hold out an olive branch to Moscow: "We shall in future continue to try not to give any cause to anybody to reproach us with reason that we are weakening the international workers' movement...
Siberia, Yiddish signs, schoolbooks and newspapers are no longer to be seen. Anything but reassuring, Khrushchev's reply raised a fresh outcry from Jewish leaders in Paris, New York, Tel Aviv. The Soviet boss baldly labeled Birobidzhan a "failure" and in laying the blame on Jewish "individualism" and "intellectualism" seemed to single out the Jews as an element unfitted for Soviet collectivism...
...news of Pleven's nomination, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba promptly announced that he no longer intended to reopen Tunisia's U.N. Security Council complaint against France over French air force bombing of the village of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef (TIME, Feb. 17). Said Bourguiba: "Monsieur Bidault's setback is an encouraging sign. His failure shows that there does not exist in the French Parliament . . . any majority for an extremist policy...