Word: returning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a grinning Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was in Helsinki for the signing of the new fiveyear, $1.5 billion trade pact. Terms: Finland will continue to send icebreakers and papermaking machinery to Russia, in return for Soviet wheat, coal, oil, autos. The Soviet-bloc share of Finnish trade will remain a vital 22%. Asked whether Russo-Finnish relations would be hurt if the Finns should join their British and Scandinavian trading partners in the proposed Western "Outer Seven" bloc, Mikoyan returned a wary answer. "That is a matter for the government of Finland," he said, "which will take...
...Past. Twenty-five years ago, the U.S. proudly ended a 19-year Marine occupation in Haiti; the return of the Marines is ironical but seemingly vital. Colonel Heinl (Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Korea), Yaleman ('37) and Marine historian, arrived last January with red mustache, pith helmet and fluent French to find the Haitian army in horrifying shape...
...letters in one pocket and the bad in another. When I looked I had 39 good letters in one pocket and there was only one bad one in the other pocket. I've been getting so much love from so many people that I just wish I could return it all. People are wonderful...
...return mail the snorers got instructions for an exercise that may curb snoring: "Hold something firmly between your teeth (or gums if you have no teeth) for ten minutes after going to bed but before settling to sleep." In each letter Family Doctor enclosed a wooden tongue depressor "very suitable" for holding between the teeth. The exercise strengthens muscles that hold the mouth closed, helps Britons to control snoring by keeping a stiff upper...
...periods, thus lessen the chances of loss when options are exercised. "This," says Filer, "produces the same effect as an insurance company insuring thousands of houses against fire." With many options, the odds favor the seller, and he can receive enough premiums in one year to provide a fat return on his stocks...