Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More serious is the implication for American press freedom. If McCarthy can not tolerate criticism at ocean length, he will probably try to stop it at home. Perhaps America can not buy the world's friendship, but there is no reason to shake the belief of a strong people in democracy. And stifling dissenting voices would go far toward making democracy a cheap word emblazoned on billboards but without meaning in United States foreign policy...
Every flight test of an experimental airplane is a blood-chilling drama. It has its hero, the test pilot, to dominate its climax like the matador of a bullfight. It has a troop of villains: the unseen devils of the air that claw at the untried plane, shake it, spin it, hammer it, try to tear it to ribbons. Some tests are extra tense. The maiden flight of the X-3 a few months ago was one of the touchiest in aviation history. The pilot: Bill Bridgeman, a husky, clear-eyed airman who had already flown faster (1,238 m.p.h...
...years, he chatted pleasantly-a task that is far from easy for a man whose infrequent smiles seem to make his face ache. When the new U.S. ambassador, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, arrived in Moscow to take up his post, Molotov sent his chief of protocol to the airport to shake his hand. The same day he talked for 49 minutes with the British ambassador, and asked after Foreign Secretary Eden's gallbladder complaint. With such small gestures, and vague hints of bigger ones to come, did Vyacheslav Molotov peddle his latest bill of goods marked "Peace...
...That in ordering the doctors' purge in January, he intended a drastic shake-up in the higher echelons, with Lavrenty Beria (whose police were accused of laxity) marked out as one of the first victims. ¶ That Malenkov got wind of Stalin's intentions, and-fearing that such a purge might involve himself sooner or later- made common cause with Beria. ¶ That something historic happened in the Kremlin the night of Feb. 15, two weeks before Stalin's death. Fact: at the bottom of the back page of Izvestia Feb. 17 appears this laconic death notice...
...shake-out underlined the slide in commodity prices which has been going on since early 1951 (see chart). For businessmen, the long decline in commodity prices was more significant than the ups & downs of the stock market, since it is the prices of raw materials that, in the long run determine many retail prices. And even hough some retail prices are still rising the worldwide price trend, forecast by commodities is downward. Many of the commodities, like wool and rubber, which had the biggest rise right after the Korean war, have had the sharpest fall since. The Government...