Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anthony Eden and his course of capitulation at Geneva, approval came from all quarters of the political spectrum, from Bevanites to Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself. But. except for the cries from the Bevanite left, even the loudest cheers had no note of jubilation, and the warmest congratulation betrayed a nagging suspicion that not peace, but trouble, lay ahead. Britain sighed in gratitude for a respite. Said the Times: "There is cause for deep thankfulness in the news about Indo-China. There cannot be joy." Said the News Chronicle: "You can do something constructive with peace. You can only...
...Bonn FBI. He drove to the apartment-office of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, a busy, prosperous gynecologist who plays a hot trumpet, shares John's interest in woman-chasing, and is known to be a Communist. Sometime that evening, Wohlgemuth sat down at his desk and wrote a note: "The fact is that Dr. John will not return to the Western sector." Then they left together. Curiously enough, John left behind him in his hotel room a notebook that would have been useful had he intended selling...
This week Peiping radio broadcast a note in which the Chinese Communist government "expressed its regret at this accidental and unfortunate incident," offered to pay compensation and said its pilots had mistaken the British plane for a Chinese Nationalist bomber. A few hours later the State Department announced that there was more to the story than had been told: two U.S. planes, from two carriers assigned to "cover and protect" rescue operations, had shot down two Chinese Communist planes which had attacked them over the high seas while they were searching for survivors...
...month over an imaginative newspaper account of his daughter Karen's wedding, Author Philip (Tomorrow!) Wylie suddenly decided that the story was all wet in portraying him as a "nervous" father of the bride. To the society editor of the Miami Herald Wylie batted out an explanatory note: "To be sure I was under a slight emotional strain as I came down the aisle with my daughter, owing to the fact that after a couple of false starts she went on with her customary apparent composure-but out of step ... I found myself reflecting on the many hundreds...
...quintet. Looking bemused and gesturing wildly, he set his cocked trumpet* to his lips and played Gabriel-like tones that sent chills up the listeners' spines. "See, that's a square bend," he explained, pointing to the upswept angle. "Well, I get a sort of square note out of there. When you say 'Pow-w-w,' it comes out like a pounding-like a pounding of bricks...