Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked one place that it is not going: through the United Nations. The President rejected Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's suggestion that a larger share of U.S. aid be channeled through the U.N. Explained Ike: theoretically the idea is sound, but practically the U.N. is much too muddied by international politics for the Lodge idea to work. Our efforts, he said, must be as of now largely on a "bilateral basis." In Paris Secretary Dulles was unwilling to channel aid through NATO lest the act be misconstrued as resurgent Western colonialism. By rejecting these two outlets, the Administration...
...shows a night for ten nights. The band was seated on a slowly revolving stage in the center of the arena, and for a full hour of each show, Satchmo lined out incredibly energetic solos, sang and cracked jokes in his pebbly voice. The crowd went wild. "The cats sound the same and they dig the same," he growled. "It's like that all over the world...
...evenings when a particular street is to be cleaned, a police sound truck will exhort car-owners to park their cars according to the new plan; on the evening of even-numbered days cars must be parked on the even-numbered sides, and vice versa. Violators will be ticketed, but not, under present plans, towed away...
...founded on the postulate that there is a universal spiritual moral foundation on which the university rests. Within that agreement on the fundamental principles it was safe to permit and it was desirable to encourage dissent and dispute. Indeed, dissent is intelligible only when the framework of assent is sound...
...meeting such a character, the reader may frequently stop worrying about whodunit, and start wondering who wrote it, for Evelyn Piper is a pen name. Real name: Mrs. Merriam Modell, author of five other novels, e.g., The Sound of Years, and wife of a New York doctor...