Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist world, it was not really remarkable that there were abstentions and objections. Surprising, however, was the extent to which the Soviets bent and shuffled in order to get as many signatures as possible on the dotted line. Moscow had once aimed to use the conference to read the Chinese out of the Communist movement. No such luck: all direct mention of the Chinese was knocked out of the final version. The Kremlin had also wanted to gain the parties' approval for the doctrine of limited sovereignty, by which the Soviet regime justifies the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Russia settled...
...first time in 41 years, printed criticism of a ruling Soviet regime. The strong Australian condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, for example, appeared on Pravda's front page. While the summit was in session, Soviet citizens enjoyed a glimmer of what it is like to read a real newspaper. There in print were foreign comrades defying the Kremlin-and getting away with...
Once the Queen arrives, she will direct that the Prince be summoned. He will approach, wearing a mantle of velvet trimmed with ermine over his blue uniform as Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regiment of Wales. As Charles kneels before Elizabeth, the Letters Patent of investiture will be read, first in English and then in Welsh. The Welsh rendition is an innovation aimed at placating Wales' tribal sensibilities. While the Welsh is being intoned, the Queen will present Charles with a sword, place a coronet on his head, slip a gold ring on his finger and hand...
...prodigy, Tom is a prodigious toiler who started taking college courses while still at Shawnee High School in Springfield, Ohio, trained himself to read 750 words a minute, and arrived at Wittenberg last fall having already earned 15½ of the 36 credits needed for graduation. During his combined freshman-senior year, Tom earned twelve more credit hours by taking exams in courses that he did not even attend, finished the remaining 8½ credits by the old-fashioned method of going to classes. Last week he graduated summa cum laude from Wittenberg with a straight-A average. "This...
Novels. There is no room for literature in the novel today. The competition is too great. People want to read a novel in bed at night, and there's Johnny Carson and great old movies on The Late Show...