Word: majority
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Essence of Morality. Her second major diplomatic assignment was as the new state's first minister to Moscow, where she organized the legation on kibbutz lines, taking her turn at washing dishes. Recalled to be Minister of Labor in 1949, she began a crash program of building housing for immigrants and goldene wegen, as Israelis then called their new roads. In 1956 she was promoted to Foreign Minister, a post she held for a decade that was marked by at least one violent disagreement with Ben-Gurion over recognizing West Germany; she still refuses to ride in a German...
...Socialist victory signaled what could become a crucial shift in the balance of power between West Germany's two major parties. Heinemann was put over the top only because the Free Democrats gave him nearly all their 83 electoral votes and then resisted enticements to defect through three rounds of tension-filled balloting...
Instant Hero. The end was a long and painful time coming. The problems really began during his first year in the major leagues; while chasing a fly ball in the second game of the 1951 World Series, he slipped and tore the ligaments in his right knee. This was the first of a plague of injuries that slowly but decisively broke him down. But Mickey did not break easy. Bull-necked and broad-backed, he leaned his 195 Ibs. into high, hard fastballs and hit drives that were things of wonder. At first, when he was a rookie training...
...that it creates for parents, brothers and sisters. Until the 1950s, the average survival time for a child, after the diagnosis of acute leukemia, was well under a year. Now, with half-a-dozen palliative but no curative drugs available, the average survival time is about five years in major medical centers, and a handful of patients have held on for ten years or longer. The harsh fact remains, however, that a diagnosis of leukemia-cancer of the blood-is still an almost certain sentence of death, no matter how long deferred...
...Angeles has long suffered from the gibe that it was a museum in search of a major collection. Now it has one. Says Director Kenneth Donahue: "This is the most important purchase the museum has made since it opened...