Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force's nuclear powered airplane, a dinner party at the Metropolitan Club, and an Air Force concert at the Lisner Auditorium. But Quarles's death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned to return to Cincinnati and Procter & Gamble in the fall (TIME, March 16). Topping the list of possible successors: Donald Quarles, eminently suited with his scientific and administrative background and his six years of Defense Department experience...
...their short-snorter bank notes, received with thanks a map showing the point where Soviet and American troops first met before V-E day. When Alexander Lieb of Sherman Oaks, Calif, gave Khrushchev a ballpoint pen as a souvenir, Nikita, laughing, handed over a more expensive fountain pen in return...
...Woodrow Wilson. Daughter Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 69, recalled Wilson's triumphant return to his birthplace of Staunton, Va. shortly after his first election in 1912. Visiting with his ancient Aunt Janie, a "grim old Presbyterian" almost stone deaf, Wilson twice bellowed into her ear trumpet: "I've just been elected President." Digging him at last, Aunt Janie inquired: "Of what?" "Of the U.S.," shouted Wilson. "Don't be silly!" snapped Aunt Janie, indignantly dismissing him from her presence...
...footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine." And in chapter seven, when the bishop debates whether to return stolen goods or hand them to the poor, a footnote warns that "the slogan 'the end justifies the means' is not admissible in a bishop or anyone else. By not returning the goods . . . the bishop becomes an accomplice...
...economy's transition from recovery to boom was underscored last week by first-quarter earnings from the nation's two leading steelmakers. Top-ranking U.S. Steel Corp. reported a 9.9% return on sales for a net of $106.6 million, or $1.86 per share, up more than 70% from $1.04 per share for the first quarter last year. Bethlehem Steel Corp., second largest producer, doubled its first-quarter earnings per share to $1.06 from 52? last year...