Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond Rock-Bottom. First came Congress. Into the White House Cabinet Room early one morning trooped 27 legislative leaders, including the ranking members of the House's and Senate's prime committees-Foreign Relations, Appropriations, Armed Services. Object of the meeting with Ike: to hear of a foreign aid program about to begin its inauspicious way through the congressional mill...
...British government was belabored by increasingly shrill protests against its bomb tests. Twenty-three women dressed in mourning "for the thousands of people already affected by H-bomb explosions and for the thousands that will be in the future," called at 10 Downing Street to hand a protest to Prime Minister Macmillan, then trudged off to the House of Commons to buttonhole members. In the House of Lords, Laborite peers cited the estimate of Nobel Prize Chemist Linus Pauling of California's Institute of Technology that 1 ,000 people would die of leukemia as a result of the fallout...
LONDON, May 13--Prime Minister Macmillan today grudgingly acknowledged Egyptian President Nasser as boss for the moment of the Suez Canal. He told British ships to resume sailing through it on Egypt's terms...
...carrier Enterprise from the scrap heap. Among the other World War II brass on hand: Admiral Richard L ("Close-In") Conolly, 65, a past master at firing his 16-inchers into the whites of their eyes on enemy-held beaches; Leatherneck General Gerald C. Thomas, 62. mastermind of the prime invasive 1st Marihe Division on Guadalcanal and in Korea...
...Achilles on Skyros, a prime example of the later style of Nicolas Poussin, the master of the 17th century revival of classicism in France. Painted in 1656 for the French ambassador to the Vatican, it depicts the climactic moment in one of the liveliest of Greek legends. Young Achilles, dressed as a girl and hidden among the daughters of King Lycomedes of Skyros by his sea-goddess mother to escape his future fate at Troy, has just been tricked-by wily Ulysses-into revealing his identity. The painting shows the king's daughters reveling in necklaces, jeweled belts...