Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment of Mr. Herter as Secretary of State is the logical path that we might expect our present, incompetent Administration to follow. The profound irony behind such a move is that the Administration now in office has precisely defined its and Mr. Herter's condition: sick...
After ten minutes of fighting, the senior army officer present finally ordered his men to clear a path for Inonu's car. (As the aging hero rolled past, many an army officer respectfully sprang to attention.) At Sultan Ahmet Square, site of the hippodrome where Byzantine mobs once fought out their political differences, a crowd of 7,000 broke through police lines to cheer Inonu with cries of "Hurriyet!" (Freedom). Police tried tear gas, only to have their grenades thrown back at them by foresighted demonstrators who came equipped with gloves. Undeterred by all the fighting, Inonu moved...
...Christophers, Tonys and countless other awards had already been announced. What could the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences do to make its own Emmy awards add up to something more than another collection of meaningless statuary? The obvious answer was to pick a few deserving winners carefully and present the prizes on a tasteful show. But this time television avoided the obvious. In a season dominated by dull shows, the three-city, 42-Emmy marathon packaged for the academy by NBC last week managed to stand out as one of the worst...
Miss Rogers is at present a Research Assistant in the Harvard Translation Project...
...feel sure that the members of our group would all be quite happy to echo Mr. Valiuzhenich in our hopes for future exchanges. However, until such time as the Iron Curtain has withered away and good intentions are more reliable than at present, the best that we can hope is that we will continue the exchange with our eyes open and our idealism armed with the wisdom of past experience...