Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own countries and spread the nuclear know-how required to run atomic reactors. At present, 31 students from 19 nations are attending a reactor training school in Chicago, and 32 students from abroad have signed up for a special course in radioisotope techniques to be held at Oak Ridge next month. In addition, the U.S. has assembled technical libraries of nuclear information, each with 45,000 index cards. Japan, Italy and France have already received such libraries, and other nations will soon get them...
Diplomatic Miracle. Since the Tories returned to power in 1951, Eden's stature has grown steadily. He is not a man of power by instinct or by character, and for too long he has lived in the shade of the great Churchillian oak. Eden has had to conquer a painful shyness and a distaste for the rough and tumble of Tory politics. After a typical Eden speech, delivered with its customary earnestness. Winston Churchill once grumped: "My God, he used every cliché in the English language except 'God is love' and 'Gentlemen will please adjust...
...Into the oak-paneled upper hall of Villa Hügel, the forbidding, 200-room castle outside Essen where the Krupp munitions dynasty has lived for 81 years, went 500 veteran workers one morning last week to hear a report on Krupp's affairs. Never before had any Krupp ever condescended to report to his employees; never before had any worker been invited to the "House on the Hill." Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 46, great-grandson of Founder Friedrich Krupp, himself gave his workers the good news. Despite Allied restrictions, Krupp grossed $238 million last year...
Before the window is a simple oak altar topped by two vases of fresh flowers and a spotlighted Bible (King James version, open to the 23rd Psalm). The room's only other furniture: an American flag, two electric candelabra, a pair of kneeling benches and ten armchairs. For four days last week, the public got its first and last look at the room; henceforth, it will be open to Senators and Representatives only. A screen covering the entrance will ensure privacy, but an attendant will be allowed to call meditating legislators to the telephone or to the floor when...
...orderly Sergeant Mickey McKeogh say it was the boss's fault the ribbons went askew that day; they had Ike properly squared away but when he moved he pulled his ribbons out of kilter. Ike's decorations in order were: the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Order of the Bath, the French Legion of Honor, and a Russian decoration, the Order of Suvorov (which entitles the wearer to free rides on the Moscow subway). For ceremonially loaded chests of Ike and Zhukov...