Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steven O. Awokoya, former Nigerian minister of education, opened a two-week visit to the Cambridge area yesterday. During his stay he will study teaching techniques at the University and at M.I.T...
...State Department told it, Missouri-born Russell A. Langelle, 37, security officer in charge of the Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, rode city bus No. 107 to work as usual one chilly morning last week, got off about 9 o'clock at the corner of Chaikovskovo Street and Vorovskovo Street, a block from his office. Suddenly, in the very best Eric Ambler fashion, five civilianclad men closed in around him, efficiently pinned his arms, covered his mouth, hauled him into a nearby alley where waited a Zim, the Buick-copied car used by junior Red officials...
...reason for the rare unanimity was general awareness that Antarctic territorial claims have become hopelessly muddled: three out of the four active Soviet IGY bases are in Australian-claimed territory, and the peninsula claimed by the British under the name Graham Land is O'Higgins Land to the Chileans, and San Martin Land to the Argentines. More important yet was the fact that for once the U.S. and Russia (neither of which recognizes any Antarctic territorial claims) were in thorough agreement; genially, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov echoed Secretary of State Herter's recommendation that "Antarctica should...
Impounded. In Kalamazoo, Mich., ticketed for leaving her keys in the ignition when she parked her car, Mrs. Cleo O. Brocato demanded a trial because she had also left her watchdog in the front seat...
...tension builds well to the climax-thanks partly to Director Robert Wise (I Want to Live!), partly to an able Negro scriptwriter named John O. Killens, but mostly to Actor Ryan, a menace who can look bullets and smile sulphuric acid. But the tension is released too soon-and much too trickily. The spectator is left with a feeling that is aptly expressed in the final frame of the film, when the camera focuses on a street sign that reads: STOP-DEAD...