Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they can add up to an all-or-nothing world crisis. "The fact that the Kremlin may stand to lose from a limited nuclear war does not mean that it could profit from all-out war," says Kissinger. "On the contrary, if our retaliatory force is kept at a proper level and our diplomacy shows ways out of a military impasse short of unconditional surrender, we should always be able to make all-out war seem an unattractive course...
Just before South Viet Nam's doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem set off last week on a four-day state visit to neighboring Thailand, he was tactially informed that his favorite white sharkskin suit would not be proper at the Royal Thai court. He dispatched an aide on an emergency trip to Hong Kong, but when Diem took one look at the Western-style cutaway, striped pants and grey top hat that the aide brought back, he snorted in disgust and refused to wear them...
Schmidt chose a varied program wholly devoted to intriguing and rather out-of-the-way items. The opening "Hail, bright Cecilia," by Purcell, had the proper majesty, though there was a bit of trouble with a few of the tricky entrances. Brahms' brooding and richly colored Song of the Fates fared well, and again showed that Brahms has no superior in the handling of the choral medium...
...Yulo says the law was really written by Major Eisenhower, that he took Ike's draft paragraphs, cut them out and pasted them into the proper order to constitute the proposed law (a defense measure), and sent it off to President Manuel Quezon, who rammed it through Congress without a change. Yulo, who used to play golf with Ike at Canlubang Country Club, quotes Major Eisenhower as exclaiming in wonder: "This is legislation by shears...
...Garry Davis fluttered from Canada to Le Havre, drifted into West Germany, got netted at Oebisfelde by East German border guards after he flashed his credentials (his do-it-yourself World Passport 000.001). Bounced back to West German cops, Davis responded with lectures on world citizenship when asked for proper papers, pettishly tore up his passport and mewled, "I don't want to go back to those evil men" when ear-bent cops threatened to toss him back to the border guards Numbed by the nonsense, the lawmen in advertently let Davis flit free long enough to hold...