Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open break with the party. She debated with herself for three days, finally called him. He took her to the FBI, and for two weeks she talked-she named names, told about underground operations, party finances and channels of command, verified the Government's suspicion that the party membership in Washington State had fallen from 800 to 400 hard-bitten members...
...times were too serious for playing April Fool jokes in the headlines. Even the Communists were perplexed. Example: after years of obediently denouncing NATO as "aggressive . . . warmongering . . . imperialist," editorialists for East German newspapers stumbled all over themselves trying to explain why the Kremlin was suddenly applying for NATO membership and inviting the American imperialists into the peace-loving proletarian camp...
...positive side, Pearson was more outspoken in his support of the defense policies of the Western alliance. He fully backed the U.S. in rejecting the Soviet proposal for NATO membership (see FOREIGN NEWS). Said Pearson: "Falling into such an obvious [propaganda] trap would, of course, be dangerous. We must be prepared to examine Soviet proposals . . . whenever there seems any prospect that negotiations may prove fruitful, but we must do this while maintaining policies which we have adopted with our friends . . . for our collective defense...
...applicants will submit a single form to College Board offices at Princeton, N.J., or Los Angeles. After processing, the CEEB will send duplicates to each school designated by the applicant. For the present time, these schools will continue to do their own computing, except for the experimental group, whose membership has not yet been determined, which will use a common formula for determination of need...
...trying to amalgamate the Tory Party with the Y.M.C.A." Even Tories who had no quarrel with Rab's principles felt a distaste for putting Utopian plans on paper. But in local meetings and party conferences, the rank & file enthusiastically adopted Rab's policy papers. Tory Party membership nearly doubled in the space of a year. In 1951 the Tories came back to office. Their margin was narrow -in fact, Labor polled more votes while the Conservatives won a handful more seats. If they had failed to win a full vote of confidence from the country, the Tories...