Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inaugural address, Alexander promised to be "governor of all and every segment of the population . . . Prejudice is born in ignorance and dispelled by knowledge." He got it on the record early that "we've room on these islands for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the Red flag." He pledged himself to work for a bigger tourist trade ("but an economy based on the tourist trade alone is not a stable one"), to aid schools, to help end the islands' water shortage...
...battalion counterattacks on Bald Head. It is close-quarter battle with light machine guns, rifles, knives, grenades and crude bamboo spears. Six times the hill changes hands. At 0700, French 19-ton tanks and flamethrower squads sear the Communists out. The Moroccans count 300 Communist dead on just one segment of their broken wire. De Castries radios HQ: "I am still master of the situation...
Eight years ago a starry-eyed young actress plodded across a Broadway stage, said humorously inane things in a squeaky voice and sent first night audiences into hysterics. Overnight Judy Holliday's Billie Dawn became the champion of America's dumb blonde segment. Even with an Oscar on her dresser and Born Yesterday entrenched in Broadway's list of Long Runs, Judy Holliday's brand of witlessness is still unalloyed in her new movie, It Should Happen...
...Moslem League to stand firm until Pakistan's "Islamic" constitution can be framed (some time this summer) and national elections held. The deputies cheered Ali for his courage, but they knew as well as he did that he could no longer claim to speak for the huge Eastern segment of his country, nor for 60% of his people...
...over $60 billion, savings on student exchanges are insignificant. But the value of the exchange program is not. Reports from overseas show that it has done immeasurable good in combating rumors and false popular impressions of the United States. The foreign student in this country knows a vastly different segment of American life than does the foreigner who sees only U.S. tourists and movies...