Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closing out a nine-day tour that took him from Washington to six other U.S. cities. Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan last week returned to the nation's capital. His trip had been a smashing success-from his viewpoint. For behind him Anastas Mikoyan left scores of well-meaning...
"Man, I dragged 'em out of their existential lethargy wherever I found 'em--in the Bick, the HDC, the Lamont johns, anywhere. I gave 'em a meaning to their lives, I got 'em ultimately concerned."
The wedding had a special meaning for another of the Nizam's offspring, Shahazadi Pasha, his eldest daughter by a legal wife. She had also been betrothed to a nawab long ago, but the Nizam abruptly canceled the wedding when he was warned by a passing holy man that...
Urrutia's Cabinet seemed respectable, well meaning, weak on government experience. Prime Minister José Miró Cardona, 56, is dean of the Havana Bar Association. Commerce Minister Raúl Cepero Bonilla, 37. set his goal as "an efficient organization, but above all an honest one." Public Works...
Novelist John Updike's literary voice is low and gentle; he chooses a quiet theme and carefully understates it to the threshold of inaudibility. In his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, he picks the bones of some old people's lives in whispers. Yet Poorhouse is less concerned...