Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev might use the occasion to deal a final blow to his disgraced foes -the "antiparty group" composed of Malenkov, Bulganin. Molotov, Shepilov and Kaganovich. In the usual Communist technique, a crime has to be found to match the punishment, and Khrushchev may well blame the U.S.S.R.'s prime economic problem -low agricultural productivity -on the antiparty men, thus satisfying two desires at once. But the rest of the world was likely to center its interest in the Congress on the report that brash, quick-witted Anastas Mikoyan had brought back from his U.S. "vacation...
Because of fog -"the last thing we expected to see in New Delhi" -the royal plane was two hours late, but Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, proved well worth the wait. As beaming Prime Minister Nehru looked on at the airport, waves of schoolgirls swept up to the handsome visitor to hang garlands of marigolds about his neck. The prince made a mock stagger under the weight of the flowers. "I feel like a bullock with all these garlands," he shouted, and the crowd roared with laughter. When some children began playfully pelting him with blossoms, he pelted right back...
...industry's biggest single customer totted up its annual accounting of who got what in fiscal 1958. All told last year, said the Defense Department, military contracts totaled $21.8 billion, of which 75% went to 100 top prime contractors...
...capsule was a prime example of the kind of advance planning that has turned a small, second-rank outfit into one of the industry's highest flying companies, standing 13th among all defense contractors. McDonnell Aircraft's sales last year hit a record $442 million (up 32%), while net income climbed to a peak $10 million, with still more gains forecast for fiscal 1959. Current backlog alone amounts to $600 million. All this from a fledgling that delivered its first design barely 16 years ago and four years ago fell into the kind of trouble that could have...
...British socialism, Oxford don. Labor intellectual, president of the Fabian Society, chairman of the New Statesman, energetic author (A History of Socialist Thought, The Intelligent Man's Guide through World Chaos) who also wrote whodunits with his wife (Murder in the Munition Works)] in London. After onetime Prime Minister Clement Attlee was elevated to the peerage, G.D.H. Cole sneeringly wondered how a Laborite could "wish to be so degraded." Wrote New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin last week: "Douglas Cole was a secular saint...