Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four weeks ago when Nikita Khrushchev stirred up the Berlin crisis, world attention focused on whether the vital but vulnerable Western outpost could and would hold out. The answer was yes. But by this week it was clearer than ever that the prime intent of Khrushchev's maneuvers is to reopen the far more complex problem of divided Germany and its future...
Indeed, it is very disturbing that neither exiled President Mirza and Revolutionary President Ayub nor your two worthy readers from Pakistan had anything to say in favor of democracy and civil rights. This is in great contrast to the statement of Prime Minister Nehru that the answer to the stupendous development of Communist China is a "challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion," not a Mirzaesque approach that democracy is unfit for this challenge...
When a fellow takes out his tooth these days, the prime requirement is that she be a jazz bomb. He, for his part, is expected to make sure the coals are right for picking up the tab. Sometimes, of course, the heap plays sour, but more often the music is really served-served like a cloud, in fact. And if the sinatra is a keg, every number is liable to get real oblique...
...Chelwood, 94, winner of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize for "his disinterested but enthusiastic work for the League of Nations, his work for peace among nations and in helping President Wilson in organizing the League of Nations," longtime delegate to the League of Nations, Lord Privy Seal under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, son of the Third Marquess of Salisbury, who was thrice Queen Victoria's Prime Minister; of injuries received in a fall; at Tunbridge Wells, England. Lord Cecil did as much to create the League as any man but Woodrow Wilson. He regarded the American President as courageous...
...into rough weather, will lay off 6,000 of 20,000 workers at its Baltimore-area plant within a year unless it lands major new defense orders. Navy cut orders of Martin Sea Master jet seaplanes from 24 to 14 (saving: $60 million to $70 million). Also, Martin is prime contractor for Vanguard and Titan missiles, which may be scrubbed. Vanguard has performed below expectations; Titan was intended to backstop Atlas ICBM, which is doing splendidly...