Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national convention tries to reach a compromise between North and South, Adlai Stevenson might still have a chance. Or there could be a new compromise candidate, perhaps Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, or Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche. These and other names, e.g., Pennsylvania's Governor George Leader and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner, were being rolled around in the vacuum...
...Egyptian frontier, told the delegates: "We would rather have less water from the Jordan and an agreement with our neighbors," referring to one of the principal items of Arab-Israeli contention, "than more water and no agreement." He promised that the Arabs had "a little more time" to reach a compromise. But in the end, he said, Israel would go after her water despite Arab threats. If war should result, "we shall cross into Arab territory and not wait to meet the Arabs on our own soil...
...Bill Russell (TIME, Jan. 9) wasted no energy in fast, fancy breaks down court or wild jumps after every rebound. Flatfooted, he let others fight for balls that bounced out of his reach, but every time there was half a chance of getting his giant palm between an Iowa shot and the basket, that palm was there. Russell's teammates took it easy, too, passed and wove in careful patterns until Russell was in place in the slot, then attacked. When they missed, the Russell palm was there to tap the shot in. It was all so smooth...
...Paul A. Siple, just returned from Antarctica, the flying explorers found a great sloping trough 200 to 300 miles wide between a high mountain range west of the Ross Ice Shelf and a dome of ice. The trough leads south from the coast, and its high inland end may reach the South Pole (see map). During the Antarctic winter, says Dr. Siple, the high interior of Antarctica becomes extremely cold. Its heavy, cold air flows down the sloping trough like water running down a flume. A little of it spills through gaps in the mountains, but most of it goes...
Zymotic Bilge. Among the playwrights only Shaw is placed above suspicion of shoddiness, and the long arm of an O'Casey grudge can reach far back to cuff an offender ("Pinero . . . turned the wine of drama into water. A miracle, a miracle!"). Three pieces are devoted to the demerits of Noel Coward, whose works are finally summed up in two words (of George Jean Nathan's): "zymotic bilge." As for the "flea minds" of Ireland who are not properly reverent to their self-exiled bard, "these critics do not injure O'Casey, but they disgrace Ireland...