Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yield," took place in southern Russia, said AEC, rather than at the Arctic site "where most of the tests in recent weeks have been held." President Eisenhower promptly issued a statement notifying the world that "this action by the Soviet Union relieves the U.S. from any obligation under its offer to suspend nuclear-weapons tests." The U.S. would continue its suspension "for the time being," said the President, but if the Soviet Union did not "shortly" settle down to business and agree to a one-year halt, the U.S. "will be obliged to reconsider...
...Phone. Spirit soared for the Falcons' game with heavily favored Iowa six weeks ago. Cadet officers pleaded with the Commandant. Brigadier General Henry R. Sullivan, for permission to attend the game at Iowa City. The general countered with an offer to let the cadets go to the Stanford game in Palo Alto. Protested the cadets: "We'll beat Stanford anyway, sir, but the team needs us at Iowa." The answer was still no. The cadet wing gathered in the courtyard for a pre-game pep rally and set up a din that would not be denied. General Sullivan...
Outstanding are recent constructions at Wayne, Smith and Yale (see color pages). As architects are the first to agree, school architecture consists mainly in improvisations designed to keep pace with constantly changing needs and tastes. But these three offer bright-to-brilliant solutions to problems that will never be entirely solved...
...read excerpts in the Anchor Review and told an acquaintance about it. The acquaintance, now her fast friend: Walter Minton, president of Putnam's. Minton decided to publish the book, now has a major bestseller on his hands, and Scout Ridgewell has her cut (under a standing offer from Putnam's of a percentage for anyone who discovers "salable" book properties). She is getting the equivalent of 10% of author's royalties for the first year, plus 10% of the publisher's share of subsidiary rights for two years...
...paint" could come off. After I picked up some of their language, they cheerfully informed me that they no longer ate people, but that their fathers had. Here and there around the village, I would spot a bone that looked suspiciosly human. But they were so damned friendly." First offer of friendship: a meal of pre-chewed (to prove it unpoisoned) monkey meat...