Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the main talk about the "main thing" came from Washington...
...Engineers announced awards of $27 million in contracts to fill the Greenland gap with four DEW radar bases. A Danish firm will build bases on Greenland's east and west coasts. A U.S. firm, Peter Kiewit Sons Co., will build two inland stations with a new look: the main buildings will be raised and lowered by huge motor-operated jacks designed to keep the radar-topped structures 15 ft. above the snowdrifts. Like other DEW bases, the Greenland stations will be manned almost entirely by civilian technicians...
Next day Communist-led mobs burned Nasser in effigy in Baghdad's main street. When the body of Kamil Kazanchi, the Communist lawyer executed in Mosul, was brought to the capital for burial, a funeral procession six miles long wound like a slow river through the city center. Behind the coffin marched Iraqis who short months ago acclaimed the dictator of the Nile their idol, and now shouted: "Death to Nasser! Death to Nasser...
Chile's main income source, copper, will greatly help Alessandri's program. Selling for 31½ ? per Ib. on the New York market last week, copper was a fat 6½ ? above last year's low-and each penny's increase in the copper price means an extra $10 million a year for Chile. Moreover, Alessandri, who was elected by a Conservative-Liberal coalition, has congressional support from the Radicals, most important of the oppositionists. Dancing with Princess Alexandra at a British embassy party, Bachelor Alessandri, 62, was a picture of relaxed confidence...
...uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small boy Travis (Glynn Turman), whose main problem is to be first in the communal bathroom down the hall...