Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From then on, the Reds no longer needed Groza. They fed his egomania, allowed him always to win at tennis, to keep his wealth, to indulge his tastes in wine, women and sports-"anything I can buy with money." In 1952 they kicked him upstairs to the post of chief of state...
Russia's Sputniks have produced one of those times, as was evidenced last week by an attack of jumpiness-to-conclusions that hit two U.S. wire services, and by a statesman's post-mortem on Western reporting of last month's NATO conference...
...final moments of the flight," burbled a story in the New York Post, "the space passenger lost all sense of up and down." So. it seemed, had the Post as well as hundreds of other free-world newspapers that blasted off last week with an Associated Press report that Russia had shot a manned missile into space. For, despite such hedged headlines as the New York Daily News's REDS SAY ROCKET MAN ROSE 186 MI., it was palpably clear from the start that 1) the Reds had said no such thing, and 2) the coming of the Sputnik...
...George Smith? And who had sent him? The supervisor of repairs, who had once noted that the painter was violating safety regulations by standing on a ladder (rather than a window jack), did not know; nor did the principal or any of the teachers. Finally, the Washington Post decided to find...
Frank Pace, a lean man with worry-free eyes, had a lot of other things on his mind that morning, as befits a man who manages a missile-age empire-and who reached that top post in four short years. An Arkansas-born wonder boy. Pace was U.S. Budget Director (under Harry Truman) at 36 and Secretary of the Army at 37-two jobs that prepared him well for the presidency of General 1 Dynamics, a Arm that does 85% of its business with the Government...