Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, the virtual end of EDC leaves for Europe no vigorous forward step, no policy of the future, no high hope that can be immediately and practically furthered. Germany will (somehow) be rearmed; France will (perhaps) survive her economic and colonial troubles. The Communists will (possibly) not make spectacular gains. But all this is containment at best, and the Eisenhower Administration is committed to something better than containment...
...also economi cally profitable: last year the port exported more than $11 million worth of manganese and iron ore. In Lisbon, Nehru's designs on Goa were greeted by obstinate fury. Lisbon's Diario de Noticias angrily denounced Nehru as a misguided forerunner of Communism. "The spectacular show staged by Indian imperialism ... is nothing but an episode ... of the subjugation of Asia to the sinister disintegrating forces of Russia," it went on. "Portugal will not let this sordid spoliation, which also affects the whole Christian West, be accomplished without denouncing it to the world by raising its voice...
...Spectacular as the mile was, for sheer drama the 26-mile marathon dominated the games. Just 20 minutes after Bannister's victory, England's Jim Peters staggered into the stadium far ahead of the long-distance pack. Suddenly his stride fell apart into an awful, staggering dance. He dropped to his knees and began to crawl up the track...
...possibly dare" into an offshore volcano crater. When they returned and reported that the crater was full of the bodies of suicides, Shoriki built a platform overlooking the crater, ran excursion boats to the site and watched Yomiuri's circulation climb with the suicide rate. Such spectacular journalism has made Shoriki the most successful publisher in the country and earned him the reputation among Western newsmen as "the Hearst of Japan...
Even then, Willie had a style of his own. The long hours of rolling a rubber ball with his father had taught him the spectacular "breadbasket" catch that still thrills fans in the Polo Grounds. With his hands held low, the big glove deceptively casual somewhere around his belt, he grabbed fly balls and got them away fast-flinging them in with a whipping sidearm motion...