Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Joseph Stalin summoned the 19th Congress of the Russian Communist Party to meet in Moscow Oct. 5. In the 13½ years since the last Congress and Stalin's prophetic remark, the Russian motherland has grown powerful beyond the wildest dreams of the Czars. East & west, 569 millions have passed under the sway of the Communists. Western Europe is tired and uncertain, the British Commonwealth exhausted. Only the U.S. has sufficient force to stand between Russia and the drive for World Communism...
...next problem is to free his mind for "truly High-Level thinking," which requires an escape from office routine. "At 9:30, remark: 'Oh, J.B., anything you want from me before I take off?' 'Going out, Finch?' 'Yes, sir. Don't trust that survey at all. Think I'll get out and ring some doorbells ... get down to the grass roots.' 'Good boy, Finch.' " But on Finch's Saturday off when the boss drops by to pick up his golf clubs, Finch gets there a half hour before, rolls...
...convention laughed. His remark did much to ease the tension of the fight. By voice vote the convention seated South Carolina and Louisiana. At 1:55 a.m. after 13¾ hours, the delegates scrambled for their cars and buses...
...Lucretius, devouring Vergil, plunging into everything from the politics of ancient Rome to the cults of Etruria. Peering excitedly through her glasses, Miss Taylor started each lecture as a model of good grooming, gradually worked herself up into such a frenzy of hair-rumpling that students were moved to remark: "You can tell how well her class went by the way her hair is standing...
...dominating position on the Corporation, his position on the ad hoe committees, and his chairmanship of faculty meetings, is able to guide the University on its long-range policies. To the undergraduates who question Conant's lack of knowledge on such projects as parietal rules and student porters, a remark he once made to a dean of another college furnisher an apt answer. "I couldn't get into the housekeeping details even if I wanted to. I just have time to look after the dollars and the professors...