Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time since World War II in demanding Nasser's destruction and thereby, they hoped, reversing the decay of their position in North Africa. The British, while speaking more softly, were moving divisions and insisting through stiffened upper lips on their right and need to fight as a last resort against the loss of their irreplaceable strategic and material stake in the Middle East. As NATO met last week in Paris to contemplate the crisis that enfolds it by enfolding its two major European partners, Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, a peace-loving if fiery statesman, said...
...days later, 90 miles away in the jungle near a mountain resort hotel, Weldy came upon Harrison again. This time Harrison was accompanied by Confidential's Managing Editor A. P. Govoni and a blonde nightclub singer, Geene Courtney, 30, onetime Miss Cheesecake of New York. The party carried guns for hunting, but as a Confidential spokesman put it, " It was a sort of a lark in the mountains; you know what I mean...
...estate, along the driveway lined with spreading sycamores, skirting the garden with its orange zinnias and lavender petunias, purred the Cadillacs and Chryslers of organized labor's leaders. The executive council of the combined A.F.L.-C.I.O. met last week at "Unity House," the $5,000,000 Pennsylvania summer resort of David Dubinsky's garment workers' union, to answer an important political question: Should the A.F.L.-C.I.O. officially endorse a presidential candidate this year...
Just across the French border, in the alpine resort town of Pralognian, two old enemies (and older friends) faced each other affably. They were Italy's two best-known Socialists, but men of radically different views. One was wrinkled, leathery Pietro Nenni, 65, Stalin Prizewinner, whose "unity of action" pact with the Italian Communists provides Moscow with 35% of the Italian vote...
...last resort, not used since 1951, the Fed can make the 6,502 banks in the Federal Reserve system raise their minimum reserves, which now average 16% of loans, thus drastically cutting their lending ability overnight. (The FRB can also reverse this process when recession threatens; e.g., it opened the door for a $9.6 billion credit expansion by lowering reserves...