Word: maying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, doubtless sharing the discomfort of fellow Catholic Kennedy, said "the question of the regulation of birth is something that I am not prepared to answer. I certainly don't believe this country has the right to impose upon any country any particular ideas it may have, nor [to] interfere with the religious practices of other countries...
Premier Khrushchev may set the cat among the pigeons as he did by telling Soviet journalists fortnight ago that West Berlin "is situated on the territory" of the East German state. But any Western words or actions displeasing to Moscow -a U.S. Navy plane dropping flares near a Soviet tanker in the Pacific, a London hint that sending Russian scientists into British laboratories calls for reciprocity, a U.N. committee vote calling on Communist North Korea to allow free elections for unifying the country-cause Communist hands to be raised in righteous protest against "violation of the Camp David spirit." Recently...
After a tour of duty in Washington in what seemed an innocuous job, Poland's Colonel Pawel Monat returned to Warsaw in May of last year. In the half-world of intrigue, he was a man to reckon with. His next official job was to coordinate the work of all military attaches in Polish embassies throughout the world, which, in a Communist country, meant that Monat had access to political as well as military intelligence and espionage, and presumably knew all there was to be known. Hard-working and trusted, Monat apparently had no trouble last summer getting permission...
...Conference, Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai negotiated with Indonesia a curious treaty giving the Chinese settlers the option of either citizenship; but, in fact, nearly 75% retain Red China passports. Last year President Sukarno closed down Nationalist Chinese schools and shops-to Peking's delight. But last May, Sukarno made it plain that all Chinese were eventually to be hobbled. He ordered some 80,000 rural "alien" businessmen, worth $65 million, to move into the cities or out of Indonesia by the end of the year...
...abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other lawyers may write my opinions, they can scarcely write my books...