Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goalie who was one of the big factors in the Ephmen's victory last year. Coach Ralph Townsend has 12 returning lettermen from the '52 squad, seven of them starters. Along with Starke, leading attack man Captain Bruce Van Dusen will be another for Bruce Munro's men to reckon with. Though he has been feeding and assisting on most of the scores, he can shoot very well from either side...
...long-range ambitions, they might feel that for the present, toughness is no longer paying dividends. Communist subversion in Greece led to the strengthening of Greece and Turkey. The 1948 Czechoslovak Putsch forced Western Europe into NATO; the invasion of Korea sparked Western rearmament. By 1956, the Kremlin may reckon, the Communist world is apt to find itself confronted by an armed and aroused U.S., supported by a coalition in which German and Japanese arms loom large. Here again, fact bolsters guess: now is perhaps the last chance to halt the rearmament of Western Germany...
Schippers has been a conductor, and one to reckon with, since he turned 20. Up to now, however, he has been known almost exclusively as a conductor of operas by Gian-Carlo Menotti. He led The Consul on Broadway for three months (in 1950) conducted The Medium when it was filmed in Italy, and led NBC's television performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors for the past two Christmases...
...black Africans will have "a voice in the election of white Africans as well as in the election of those whom chance has made of their own color; that, as the years roll by, and the black electorate swells and becomes educated and mature, white candidates will have to reckon more & more with [their] wishes." With that, the plan was approved...
...critics are pretty much agreed that Elio Vittorini is a novelist to reckon with. In Sicily and The Twilight of the Elephant even brought him a plug from Ernest Hemingway: "One of the very best of the new Italian writers." His U.S. publishers believe that The Red Carnation, too, is "a fine example of Italy's incredible literary renaissance." But pinning down just what is good in Vittorini's novels takes a little more saying...