Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pending international questions should not be settled by force but by peaceful means-by negotiation. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your hospitality and, as we say in Russia, for your bread and salt. Let us have more and more use for the short American word 'O.K.' " And Nikita Khrushchev was gone...
...things changed. San Francisco was friendly and Conductor Khrushchev brought up his muted strings. While the theme never changed, the U.S. relaxed, sat back to listen and watch-even to drum a little counterpoint. Result: a grand show, spiced with pathos, comedy, touches of heavy drama, acrobatics-everything, in short, except Eliza and a cake...
...Valkyrie is revolutionary, from its stainless steel skin (withstanding 600° temperatures) to its configuration (vast delta wings aft; short, duck-winged "canard" control surfaces in the nose...
...critics hooted, "because you change from year to year." Yet Banda's talent for political survival was so astonishing that a cartoonist once pictured him as a grinning cat, leaning on his own sixth gravestone and saying, "Well, six down, three to go." Though he once actually fell short of a parliamentary majority, he managed to hold on to power by a judicious distribution of parliamentary secretaryships and minor portfolios. He survived brawls and Cabinet mutinies, ruled, until his death, with a shaky majority...
...Three Bells (The Browns; RCA). One of the nation's top-selling ballads recounts in lugubrious accents the short, unhappy life of a mountain lad named Little Jimmy Brown ("Just a lonely bell was ringing/In the little village town/ 'Twas farewell it was ringing/For Little Jimmy Brown"). Hearts and faded flowers...