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Word: sending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the President began collecting some statistics and figures of his own, which will add to an answer that will send the pollsters beating new paths for months to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Poll's Point | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...walkout of the Russian delegation ... which enabled U.N. troops to be authorized by the Security Council to defend Korea. A Soviet veto in the Security Council is to be expected in the light of present East-West relations. It is also clear that your suggestion that the Philippines send troops as a neutral nation would be vetoed by Russia and Egypt. It is obvious that Russia hardly considers the Philippines a neutral nation, since she vetoed its entrance into the Security Council some weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE ISRAELIS | 2/16/1956 | See Source »

...upon which they comment necessarily fail to have much coherence. Briefly, the plot deals with a pair of Brazilian promoters who hatch a scheme to build a dam in the hinterlands of the upper Amazon. In order to show their prospective customers that some work is actually progressing, they send out an American engineer and a young college student to make a preliminary survey. But the plane in which the two are travelling crashes, and the student, after a delirious conversation with a Bahian sea goddess, finally dies. What all this means, and indeed whether the other survivers ever...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Bandeirantes | 2/16/1956 | See Source »

There were two versions of the send-off Harry got on the day University regulations forced him to quit. One, expressed in vehement terms by Mrs. Ruth T. Brown, former Grad Center employee, asserted that "no one even shook his hand," and that his fellow workers were plenty unhappy about...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: University Drops Janitor Harry Howe With Neither 'Handshake' Nor 'Party' | 2/14/1956 | See Source »

...strains of The Star-Spangled Banner faded away than the Colorado stylist was all but forgotten. Accompanied only by his proud mother and his brother David (who finished third, behind California's Robertson), he hiked back through bitter cold to his hotel. No one had thought to send a car. Now everyone was worried about honey-haired Tenley Albright, the hard-luck kid from Newton, Mass. Only two weeks before, she had gashed her right ankle in a practice accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Saving Skates | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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