Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Splitting along regional lines, the committee's two Republicans and Massachusetts Democrat Thomas O'Neill recommended that Alford's seat be denied him until the charges were investigated, and two Southern Democrats wrote a minority report protesting the seat denial but agreeing that "further investigation is warranted." The vote presaged a bitter fight between Southerners and Northern liberals over the Fifth District's seat when the House convenes next month...
...that Comrade Khrushchev said in his report about the antiparty group and about me is true." They had "criminally" opposed, delayed and impeded a farm program of "genius." Bulganin gave devastating little thumbnail sketches of his colleagues disgraced and banished-Molotov, "isolated from life and from the Soviet people, knowing nothing of industry and agriculture"; Kaganovich. "a phrasemaker who interfered with party work with his long, involved speeches"; Malenkov, "an intriguer capable of all vileness...
Twisty Center. The bureau will forecast flying weather up to 42,000 ft. Most of the information will come from weather balloons launched every six hours and reported to seven main stations (Suitland, Md., New York City, Miami, San Juan, P.R., San Francisco, Honolulu and Anchorage, Alaska). Electronic instruments dangling under the balloons will report temperature and humidity at the various levels. As the balloons climb through the air layers, their motion will be tracked electronically, revealing the direction and speed of the high-altitude winds. At the National Weather Analysis Center at Suitland, the data will be digested, plotted...
...variety of evocative names,* and he invariably blames it on the local food and water, which he suspects of harboring amoebae or other low and exotic forms of life. In this he is almost certain to be wrong, said Manhattan's Dr. B. H. Kean in a report to the A.M.A. For all its global prevalence and frequent severity (it can touch off fever and vomiting, lead to dehydration and even prove fatal), tourists' diarrhea has had little scientific study seeking its causes and cures...
INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY, by John Gunther. Reporter Gunther got inside Russia for a while, bludgeoned his way through stacks of other people's books about Russia and produced the best of his Inside testimonies. Surface-smooth, unclogged by deep thought, it gives the U.S. reader the best, most colorful and most painless report available of Khrushchev-land...