Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down, the U.S. has been drawn more and more deeply into a commitment of responsibility in an area and over problems (e.g., Suez) about which only six months ago Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could say that the U.S. was not "primarily" concerned. The wider commitment was plain to see in President Eisenhower's last urgent letter to Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion, urging the "utmost speed" in withdrawal but promising to work for conditions "more stable, more tranquil and more conducive to the general welfare than those which existed heretofore...
Members elected are Lawrence H. Johnson, of Adams House and Duluth, Minn., Constantino S. Yannoni of Dudley Hall and Jamaica Plain, Mass., Walter H. Caulfield, Jr. of Dunster House and East Stroudsberg, Pa., David W. Terris of Eliot House and Grosse Point, Mich., Harry L. Griffin, Jr. of Kirkland House and Charlotte, N.C., Harry J. Wexler of Lowell House and New Haven, Conn., and Willard G. McGrew, Jr., of Winthrop House and Gaithersbury, Md. Leverett House extended its election through today's noon meal owing to an exceptionally light vote last night...
...premises. They screamed at Joy: "You will go to hell!" Their efforts were futile. Wilson was unbruised, Joy unbound, when bobbies swooped down on the domestic scene. Crimson with anger, John Stewart offered Wilson's diary as proof that the rapscallion was "not a genius" but just plain "mad." Rasped Stewart: "He thinks he's God!" The diary, noted newsmen, was indeed rather bizarre. Excerpt: "How extraordinary that my fame should have corresponded with that of James Dean, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and Lonnie Donegan, et al. Like James Joyce and the Dadaists ... I have always wanted...
...horses each, plus two camels. For a production of Donizetti's Poliuto, it mustered 1,200 people and two lions. Such habits have saddled Italian opera companies with groaning annual deficits, which in recent history have been paid by the government. For weeks now, politicians, newspapers and plain opera lovers have been raising shrill voices in protest against a proposed cut in government opera subsidies...
...When the plain facts are not sufficient for the purposes of mass entertainment, Wilder is not averse to dressing them up in high commercial style. He supplies plenty of hee-haw at the suspender-salesman and apoplectic-captain level, a musky little whiff of romance on the eve of the flight, a couple of near crashes that never really were, and a streak of sentimental, pseudo-religious superstition, involving a St. Christopher medal...