Word: roades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whisked away from the pressures and pressagentry temptations of Washington to the quiet of President Eisenhower's Catoctin Mountain hideaway, Camp David. There Old Friends Eisenhower and Macmillan (a political adviser on General Ike's staff during the North African campaign in World War II) explored the road to the summit...
Dwight Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan met at Aspen Cottage's hearthside with a common goal: to maintain peace even while preserving freedom. But they differed significantly in their ideas about the best road to travel toward that goal...
Though he does not act his age, John knows that at 77 he cannot count on a long reign. "Well, here I am-at the end of the road and the top of the heap," he told visiting Canadian Premier John Diefenbaker. At another audience he said: "I who have come to the pontificate at such an advanced age do not despair of receiving from the Lord at least the time conceded to St. Agatho [Pope from 678 to 681]. There are so many things...
...Stockholm's radar, the Doria was approaching on the left, and if she had held her course, she would have passed to the left, as required by rules of the road at sea. Doria's radar should have shown Stockholm to her left also; instead, it showed her to the right. When the gap between the two ships was closing too fast for comfort, each watch officer tried to widen the gap, but since they saw each other on different sides, their best efforts had the worst effect. Stockholm's bow smashed through Doria's side...
...time when anarchism and chaos hold considerable power in the world of painters, it hurts to have to blast a respect for tradition which most young painters of the day need desperately. But tradition can mean a road to liberation and it can also mean a confining dedication to antiquity...