Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet proposal was a spectacular playon the eve of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden's trip to Washington-for a deal between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., a nightmare prospect for the U.S.'s allies in both Europe and Asia. (In 1954 Russia proposed an all-European accord that would have excluded the U.S. from Eu rope.) Bulganin doubtless hoped it would reinstate him in his favorite propaganda role of peacemaker. Eisenhower's skillful, moderate reply not only exposed the hollowness of the Russian plea but clearly implied that the real hope of settling the cold...
...years as superintendent, she has built a reputation as the most adroit political battler for education that Washington has ever known. So adroit has she become, in fact, that many a Democrat had hopes that she would run for governor next fall. It would have been a spectacular race, for even the Republican hopeful, Attorney General Don Eastvold, admitted: "She'd be a formidable opponent." This week, however, Pearl announced that she had only one office in mind. She intended to seek re-election to the post she has held so long...
...Lumicon will get its most spectacular astronomical test when Mars comes near the earth late next summer. Astronomers have always been baffled and infuriated by Mars; even in their biggest telescopes it looks like a small, fuzzy, orange disk that jiggles around as irregularities in the earth's atmosphere affect the path of its light. Once in a great while the jiggling stops, and for an enchanted instant Mars stands still, its surface covered with fine and fascinating detail. These intervals of good "seeing," however, do not last long enough to be photographed, and the human eye-brain combination...
...Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
Another cautionary note came from the automakers, whose production race led 1955's spectacular economy. Traveling to New York to settle final details of the sale of Ford stock, Henry Ford II warned both professionals and amateurs not to expect a surefire bonanza when 10.2 million shares of the stock go on sale...