Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display of his cloakroom style, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, 60, last week bolstered his position, held since Ohio's Robert Taft died in 1953, as the behind-the-scenes leader of Senate Republicans. As usual he refused (for health reasons, he again explained) to consider a move from his powerful position on the Appropriations Committee to take on the minority leader title. He preferred instead to back Illinois' Everett Dirksen for the job. To crown Dirksen, Bridges had first to put down a stubborn revolt of Vermont's George Aiken and six other Senate liberals...
...agreement, giving hard-pressed Colonel Nasser a financial windfall that might ease his heavy dependence on Moscow, was perhaps one result of the Communist offensive against Nasser in Syria and Iraq that the Russians may not have expected. Nasser has belatedly begun to move against the Communists. He has arrested several hundred of them in Syria and Egypt, including some Egyptian newsmen, though this news has significantly not appeared in the Egyptian press...
...displayed to dressing-room interviewers a pair of underdrawers decorated with gorgeous women. "This way I never run out of girls," he grinned. In voluble Spanish Gonzales suggested Olmedo's strategy: keep the ball low on the wet court, use lobs to drive Cooper back from the net, move around to upset the Aussie's second service. It worked. Charging to the net, the Chief forced the attack, punched his volleys accurately, won 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6. Almost single-handed Alex Olmedo had won the Davis...
...raised industrial design from a mechanical slough of vulgarity. For in the early years of mass production, the sound design of artisans gave way to the cheaply pretentious. The craftsmanlike simplicity of early American furniture was displaced by curlicues and overstuffing, and bathtubs took on lion feet in a move to look ancient...
...Budd Co. (automobile brake drums, wheels, etc.) will move out of the red and show a 1958 profit because of a "greatly improved fourth quarter...