Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday, he conferred with President Eisenhower on Quemoy, found the President occupied and deeply disturbed by U.S. and Euro pean press criticism (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES). On Tuesday, only minutes before his press conference, Dulles sent down for a handful of State Department mail to be picked out at random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have a war just on account of Quemoy and Matsu," but many, many more that simply pleaded "Let's not get into a war." The basic U.S. policy on Quemoy-hold...
...students studied will be chosen at random. They will be given tests which are readily accessible to all schools, with the results of each test being reviewed in relation to the results on every other test...
...abortive effort to place a 20-in. weather satellite into orbit, the Navy's hard-luck Vanguard rocket belched flames and steam, rose three-quarters of an inch off its Cape Canaveral launching pad, then settled gently back into place. Because of a "random failure," the first-stage rocket engine had shut off automatically just in time to prevent Vanguard from toppling over and exploding, saving it to fly again another day. Vanguard's sorry record to date: seven tries, six failures...
Since 1940 I have received screen credits-for Waterloo Bridge, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Command Decision, and others-most of them favorably reviewed by TIME, yet my name was never mentioned. The same omission occurs in your Sept. i review of Me and the Colonel. The screenplay was written by S. N. Behrman and myself. Forgive my vanity, but tell your readers of my existence...
Bennett: First I leaned toward Miss Canada. Then I liked Miss California, but she's too sure of herself. Now I like Miss Mississippi. After all, she has read Faulkner [published by Bennett Cerf's Random House...