Word: nationalizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...change the attitude of Myles's closest friend, willowy, 19-year-old Lee Smart, who at 16 got 30 years for clubbing a man to death. Last week the pair conspired to set off one of the most harrowing riots in the recent years of trouble in the nation's prisons...
...government radio and press sassed Moscow back with a bravado unknown in earlier days. To charges that Iranian oil is being exploited by outsiders, Radio Teheran tartly urged Moscow: "Liberate the enslaved Rumanian workers from the claws of Soviet soldiers and hand back the oil to the Rumanian nation. Moscow thinks Iran is a second Rumania, where people have but one freedom-that of dying...
More than three years ago American foreign-aid officials set about modernizing the transport system in struggling little Laos, a pastoral nation bordered by Red China and Communist North Viet Nam. Motives were high and the task seemed simple, but within months the project was bogged down in a mass of bribes, kickbacks and plain confusion...
...government is anti-Communist rather than neutralist; ministers no longer hang out at Dirty Dan's nightclub; no ministry can purchase a car without the signature of Phoui or his Finance Minister, and both men are showing an admirable tendency toward writers' cramp. Into this tiny nation of 2,000,000 people, the U.S. has since January 1955 poured $225 million (plus large amounts of classified military aid). The future looks promising, if the past is not allowed to haunt...
...composers: "Death doesn't enhance them, only possibly their music." To enhance the composer while he is still alive is Violinist Polikoffs avocation. Last week, in Manhattan's 92nd Street Y.M.H.A., Polikoff gave the sixth concert in his annual "Music in Our Time" series, one of the nation's most remarkable sounding boards for contemporary compositions...