Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maryland, a revamped Democratic organization easily held its own four seats, also picked up the remaining three from Republicans, including the Eastern Shore seat of six-term G.O.P. Congressman Edward T. Miller...
...firmly declined: "I cannot meet this bibulous representative of a degenerate monarchy." James McNeill Whistler remembered Rome as "a bit of an old ruin alongside of a railway station where I saw Mrs. Potter Palmer." But her picture-crammed castle ("English Gothic of the square-headed variety") on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago was Mrs. Palmer's favorite seat. "Adieu" she would tell friends in Paris. "I must go back to Chicago to give the Charity Ball...
...Lengths. After Dulles departed, the Communists stopped shelling for a while, and Red Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, in a broadcast beamed at the Free Chinese, announced that shore batteries would hold their fire every other day so that supplies could reach Quemoy. Furthermore, said Peng, the Peking government stood ready to supply Quemoy with "anything" the island lacked. "It is time now to turn from foe into friend," he added...
...making their decision, the citizens must remember that Walden is not what it once was. For years the eastern shore has been a rather shabby public bathing beach, and the spirit of Thoreau in the glades of the western shore has been supplanted by a land speculator named Kavacas, who throws parties at his summer house there. And, in the summer months at least, the woods now are more full of frolicking couples than of the furred or feathered wild-life...
...from President Eisenhower urging help to the impoverished giants of all continents, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson proposed that member countries increase their contributions to both the World Bank, which lends money to its members at regular bankers' rates, and to the IMF, whose funds are available to shore up sagging national currencies in an emergency. Backing Ike's suggestions, the boards of governors of both Bank and Fund agreed unanimously to boost the contributions of all members. There was talk of doubling the Bank's $9.4 billion capitalization (increasing the U.S. contribution to more than...