Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...councils, mindful of shortening supplies of food and the lack of heat, met with Soviet commanders. A return to work, under certain conditions, might have been arranged but for the news which flashed through Budapest one day last week: the Russians were deporting Hungarians. Soviet police had been seen going from house to house arresting young rebels. Now the grapevine reported that at least 180 boxcar loads of Hungarians had been deported in a few days. Notes dropped by young deportees along the railroad tracks had been picked up. One of these, copied and circulated all over Budapest, read...
Businessmen have trouble defining the new conservatism because it represents a departure from dogma, from the rigid principles and prejudices of classic conservatism. As Yale Economist Henry C. wrote, those who voted for "an other four years of conservatism" this month were endorsing "something felt, rather than clearly seen. Conservatism is an attitude, an approach, more than a specific set of doctrines. Its specific policies must change with the times-anything else would be ossification, not conservatism. And conservatism must flow from convictions if it is to be more than defense of vested interests...
...four-boat flotilla were driven into a field of floating papyrus and held captive by the sinewy stems. The crew of one boat managed to cut their way out of the papyrus jungle when they drifted into shallow water; the other crews and their boats were never seen again...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created what is certainly the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
...past 60 years have seen several significant ventures toward establishing new centers of higher education in this country. John D. Rockefeller led to the first in 1890 when he donated $600,000 for founding a university in Chicago...