Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firmly were to jeopardize the chances of negotiation and peace. London's popular press presents the Berlin crisis not as a struggle between Russia and the West, but between a peace-loving Macmillan and an obstinate Eisenhower (whom former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge last week described as the "poor, meandering old President") and inflexible old men in France and Germany. Fortnight ago, when NATO's General Lauris Norstad temperately pointed out the dangers to the West of military disengagement in Central Europe, London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror exploded with a frontpage blast headlined MEDDLING AMERICAN GENERALS...
...bone by scavenger birds and beasts. Tibetan sons keep their fathers' skulls and use them as drinking cups out of filial piety. On stormy days, when blizzards smother the high mountain passes, lamas cut out paper horses and scatter them to the winds to carry help to any poor traveler foundering in the deep snow. Meeting a stranger, a Tibetan sticks out his tongue in friendly greeting...
...Akihito to get out and talk to me," he insisted at police headquarters. "I wanted to convince him that Japan should be a republic." Unaware of what genteel penury the Japanese royal family lives in, he also seemed to think that royal pomp was a heavy drain on the poor...
...publie role for the royal family. Palace officials have lately been quizzing British guests at cocktail parties for advice on how to achieve that successful British blend of public affection and respect. The royal couple have been advised to show themselves especially fond of children and of the poor...
...wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos of his homesickness...