Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonalignment with "military blocs" would gradually lead the Communist and non-Communist worlds to mutual understanding, 3) the repeated pledges of "peaceful coexistence" by Peking meant that Red China was worthy of joining the U.N. The national disillusionment was so great that even Prime Minister Nehru took off his rose-colored glasses, looked hard at his giant neighbor to the north, and told the Indian Parliament: "I doubt if there is any country in the world that cares less for peace than China today...
...since he stepped down as Britain's Prime Minister more than four years ago had Sir Winston Churchill made any utterance in the House of Commons. But one afternoon last week both sides of the House rose to cheer Churchill as he shuffled to his accustomed seat. It was his 85th birthday. After hearing congratulations from Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell and Tory House Boss R.A. ("Rab") Butler, the old man rose slowly to break his long parliamentary silence. His speech in full: "May I say I accept most gratefully and eagerly both forms of compliments." Afterward, Sir Winston...
...morning last week, the long, lanky balloon rose slowly from a sheltered valley in the wooded hills outside Rapid City, S. Dak. Climbing slowly into the far blue sky, it gradually expanded to its full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look...
Staudacher crashed into Pelican Point at 150 m.p.h. The boat missed a shelf of rocks by 18 in., rose majestically and hurtled some 150 ft. through the air, came down on a bank of loam and sand that was about the only spot on the peninsula not covered by rocks, skidded nearly into the water on the far side of Pelican Point before stopping...
Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, with Robert Morley as the brutish Beadle, Eric Portman as Fagin, Inga Swenson as Rose, Newcomer Frederick Clark, 12, as Oliver...