Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms his subject --mediaeval history--a "kind of no man's land" that students often skip. Europeans don't have the American passion for breaking down history into blocks by country and era: "We don't study French history; we study history." Not used to general survey courses, Perroy is having considerable trouble compressing the whole Carolingian Empire into three weeks...
Indignantly, Stevenson echoed a complaint by Dean Acheson that Ike had unfairly accused the Secretary of State of "writing off" Korea in a 1950 speech. "I am frankly astonished that my opponent stooped ... to the practice of lifting remarks out of context'. . . Why did he skip the Secretary's further pledge that if there should be an attack on these countries, 'the initial reliance must be on the people attacked to resist it and then upon the commitments of the entire civilized world under the Charter of the United Nations'?" Far from "writing off" Korea, said...
French was granted a continuance until October 15 for a hearing. He will plead guilty and waive the hearing; two weeks later the Grand Jury will convene, but he will also skip that for the formal trial...
...principals of The Quiet Man may not lure travelers to Ireland, but the scenery certainly will. The Technicolor countryside ought to make any tourist skip the Loire and travel west from Southampton instead...
...wings, from Korean battlefields to Brazilian jungles, it has fluttered to the rescue of grounded airmen. It has ferried passengers and cargo to remote landings that were unreachable by conventional, straight-wing planes. Last week the helicopter added new range to its versatility. In a 3,400-mile hop, skip & jump, a pair of Sikorsky H19 helicopters landed in Prestwick, Scotland, after a leisurely 16-day flight from Westover Field, Mass. For the first time, rotary-wing aircraft had spanned the Atlantic...