Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propaganda machine that is hostile to him, his party, and all that he stands for. The Labour delegates have presumably reconciled themselves in advance to the fact that during their tour they will be photographed, filmed, recorded for radio, and exhaustively written up by the worldwide Communist "disinformation" net work; that their simplest expressions of thanks to their hosts will be represented as prostrations before the might and glory of Mao Tse-tung's regime; and that if they venture to comment unfavourably on anything they see, no breath of that criticism will reach the millions behind the iron...
...songwriter got too saucy with Anthony Eden and ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain, who has power to grant or refuse theatrical licenses without explanation. Three days before the opening of an obscure new revue called Light Fantastic, the Lord Chamberlain ordered the offending song lyrics dropped. The net result: London's tabloid Daily Mirror, which needs no by-your-leave from the Lord Chamberlain or anyone else, printed the ditty...
...detect approaching enemy bombers, the U.S. has spread a web of radar stations along its coastlines and across the wastes of northern Canada and Alaska. Except for Navy picket ships and patrolling "Pregnant Geese" (radar-laden Lockheed Super Constellations), the protective net stops at the water's edge, leaving U.S. port cities vulnerable to sneak atomic attack. Last week the Air Force revealed that it plans to eliminate part of the gap with a string of artificial, radar-equipped Atlantic "islands," located from Newfoundland to the Virginia capes (see map) and as far as 150 miles offshore...
...Swedes would like to pull out. He also revealed that exploratory talks had been held at Geneva on abolition of the N.N.S.C. (a move which would make the struggle for information a straight contest between the intelligence services of both sides). Since the present N.N.S.C. operations are a substantial net benefit to the Reds, they are most unlikely to agree to any proposals to abolish...
...large net contributors to, and not charges upon, our national wealth and public treasury. We believe that we clearly...