Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible-even probable. Logical place for it would be a small island group known colloquially as the 'White Dogs' eleven miles southeast of the Matsus. They are hardly worth expensive defense. Yet their fall would imperil the Matsus, and if accompanied by passive U.S. acquiescence, would severely shake our Formosa position...
...gloomy halls of La Paz's Foreign Ministry, crammed with ornate furnishings of so many periods that it calls to mind an auction house, a hundred men and women gathered one morning last week to shake hands with Foreign Minister Walter Guevara. After almost four years of energetic service, Guevara, a longtime sociology professor and an outspoken friend of the U.S., was being forced out. Even more worrisome was the cause of Guevara's fall: a plain left swerve by Bolivia's ruling party, the National Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R...
Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60? cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's eye. Asked how he liked Composer Frederick Delius' Brigg Fair, a featured dish on Beecham's symphonic menu, Sir Thomas said: "It's a very bad piece of music. They'll like it in Cleveland...
Meanwhile, Radcliffe junior Tenley Albright will continue practicing, trying to shake off the effects of her injured leg, in preparation for the figure skating events Monday. The current World Champion, she went through her most rigorous routines yesterday...
...Nehru's neutralist bloc, and at the same time it would accept U.S. military aid to equip an army of 40,000. If this seemed a little contradictory, Norodom added without batting an eyelid: "With this aid we will maintain a strong army even if America and Russia shake hands tomorrow." His public murmured assent at their Premier's wisdom...