Word: soon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Important international negotiations lie ahead," said Macmillan. "It is clearly right that the people should have the opportunity of deciding, as soon as practicable, who are to represent them in these negotiations." The papers immediately labeled it a "summit election,", and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, caught off base visiting Premier Khrushchev in Moscow, hurried home to take up the challenge. Asked Laborite Gaitskell at London airport: Isn't it "better to be represented by people who have all along believed in the need for a summit meeting...
...prepared to swallow," says an old Ethiopian proverb, and a good bit of swallowing is ahead for Haile Selassie in return for his take of the East's goodies. Several thousand refugees from the rule of his great friend Tito are due to be deported back to Yugoslavia soon. Chinese envoys, disguised as journalists, have already arrived in Addis Ababa in hopeful anticipation of Ethiopian diplomatic recognition of Red China. And some time next year, the Emperor has been warned to expect a visit from Communism's senior traveling salesman, Nikita Khrushchev himself...
Opening at Manhattan's Copacabana, Joe E. Lewis entertained an audience that included his usual hecklers, one of whom was soon on the short end of a new Lewis squelch: "Sir, you're a disgrace to your sex, whichever that...
...news on the domestic side is cause for great concern. For two weeks, the market's anticipation of a rise in the Federal Reserve's discount rate added to the decline. But at week's end, after the rise came, the market rebounded. As soon as the steel strike is settled, brokers expect the market to seek new highs in a sustained rally...
...woman who started it all, the Empress Tzu Hsi. escaped by cutting her long, lacquered nails and fleeing Peking disguised as a peasant. But soon the allies wanted her back to administer the last years of the wretched empire. In 1901, she returned to Peking, bowed to applauding foreigners, and went back to the Forbidden City. She ruled China for seven more years until her death in 1908, an evil copy of Britain's Queen Victoria, whom she much admired...