Word: marches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held his post through two smashing election defeats precisely because the party could not make up its mind about its future, abruptly announced that he was stepping down as a candidate for Chancellor next time. In a sense it was Nikita Khrushchev who forced the decision. Last March Leftist Social Democrats put over a new party program, hoping to reunify Germany by appeasing the Russians. But when Ollenhauer went hat in hand to Khrushchev in Berlin, he found the Soviet leader frankly contemptuous of the Socialists' offer of German withdrawal from NATO. After that humiliating meeting, Socialist popularity fell...
...Previously secret fiscal details, produced after an ultimatum from the Commons, showed that the CBC made a profit on only 17 of 102 shows produced during a typical March week. Largest subsidy-wherein only $9,678 of the total cost of $30,132 was paid by sponsors-went to a Canadian version of the longtime U.S. radio and TV Hit Parade show...
They said on the 27th of March last that it couldn't be done, and it did seem impossible: to level and fill 16 acres of what had once been a salt marsh, dig a moat, lay foundation piles and piers, erect a huge theatre of pioneering design, and prepare a production in time for a July 9 opening...
...amazing expansion so far this year. Estimates last week of the growth that took place in the April-June quarter showed that the gross national product annual rate rose $12 billion over the first quarter, $5 billion more than expected. Added to a $14 billion gain in the January-March quarter, this made a rise in the annual rate of $26 billion in six months, close to the $30 billion the President and his advisers predicted...
Middle of the Night. Paddy Chayefsky's highly effective saga about a lonely September widower (Fredric March) and a neurotic May girl (Kim Novak...