Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presided over Christmas dinner with the family, including grandchildren. Main item: a 42-lb. turkey...
...critics of a general staff system, still led by the Navy and including many a Congressman, can be expected to put up a fight against any such change however labeled. Main lines of their argument: a general staff might 1) drain the separate services of esprit de corps, 2) commit the U.S. to a single, inflexible strategic course that might prove disastrous, and 3) concentrate military power to the extent that a Chief of General Staff could become a man on horseback, riding rough shod over democratic institutions...
...West Indies nation moves toward next March's election of a federal legislature and formation of its first government, the eleven main islands are gradually getting more freedom from Britain in local affairs. This week a big helping of self-government goes to Barbados, sugargrowing "little England" of the West Indies, where for 300 years a select "plantocracy" has run the British Commonwealth's third oldest Parliament (after Britain itself and Bermuda). Governor Sir Robert Arundell will hand over part of his remaining powers to Barbados' first Cabinet, bossed by Socialist Prirne Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams...
...latest works at Manhattan's Viviano Gallery, is the best of Italy's new postwar generation. Winner of the Grand Prize for Italian painting at Venice's 1956 Biennale, he is about to spend six months at California's Mills College, where his main assignment will be a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. mural for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters...
...animal relatives are a "type of highly modified plant life," according to Biologist Lawrence S. Dillon of Texas A. & M. By examining the internal structures of living cells. Dillon concludes that all life evolved from microscopic blue-green algae. From these algae developed two main branches of life. One became what is commonly called the plant kingdom, the other evolved into brown seaweed and eventually produced man and his fellow animals. Said Dillon: "We are forced to conclude that all life belongs to only one kingdom, which in all honesty must be recognized as the kingdom of plants...