Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill also adopts a Cordiner report recommendation to create two super pay grades of enlisted men, E-8 and ?9, to which a limited number of exceptionally experienced and able master sergeants or chief petry officers could be promoted. Base pay for E-8 would be up to $400 a month...
...years of frustration in Indo-China, Morocco, Suez and now Algeria. As for the ordinary Frenchman, he is too busy enjoying his nation's unprecedented prosperity to feel anything more than weary apathy toward politics. Last week saw two new records set in Paris. One was for the number of private cars leaving the city on weekend jaunts into the countryside; the other was for the number of people-44%-who failed to vote in a by-election...
...shock. The big winner: the bibulous Socialists, who captured nine of the legislature's 29 seats. The pro-American Democrats skidded Irom 17 seats to seven, and only one of Thoma's supporters was elected. But the Communist Minren won only five seats, half the number they expected. "A stunning blow," confessed Saichi Nakeshi. Red mayor of Naha. "The people disliked the idea of being used as a tool of international Communism," commented the Socialists' snaggle-toothed Tsumichio Asato...
...Milan has two pillars," runs a respectful Italian adage. "One is La Scala. The other is Carriere della Sera" By catering as faithfully as its operatic opposite number to middleclass, culture-conscious Milanese, Corriere has long reigned as Italy's biggest daily (circ. 505,000) and one of the most enterprising newspapers published anywhere. Known in Milan simply as The Newspaper, staid Corriere della Sera got its start and its name as an evening paper, now comes out in two editions every morning. It runs no comic strips, gossip columns or guessing games, clings solidly to the aim outlined...
...most serious obstacles to the growth of Christianity in Brazil. He dreamed up a new agony radio program called Hour of Good Will. Letters poured in dripping with misfortunes and appeals for help, and as Zarur read them over the air, he was fascinated by the number of donations they brought in. "Then," says he, "I knew I was a born apostle...