Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American citizen, and hence not subject to ecclesiastical force, can disavow the policy which the hierarchy of his church has proclaimed." At week's end, a spokesman for the aid-dispensing International Cooperation Administration said that not a penny of U.S. foreign aid had been spent to spread birth control information overseas, added that "no such action was contemplated." Hence, said he, the controversy was actually "very academic...
...reported that eight Hungarian patriots have been secretly tried and executed recently and "there is imminent possibility of further executions." Sir Leslie noted with scathing constraint that the Communists barred him from visiting Budapest on grounds that the 1956 uprising was "a matter of domestic jurisdiction," yet continued to spread the "fanciful" and contradictory story that "the uprising was instigated by foreign powers...
Dinner guests at the Soviet embassy spread the word that the cuisine and cellar were excellent. Mme. Vinogradov, an amateur painter herself, began encouraging young French artists to drop around, even abstractionists, whose decadent works would never find favor in Moscow. And soon columnists were speculating on which London tailor the ambassador might be patronizing...
...last bullet was successfully removed from Kassem's left arm one day last week, and the Premier, clad in pajamas and silk dressing gown, strolled about the hospital. Once again, as it has before, word spread that Kassem would be out of the hospital "in a few days...
...unless a contract is signed. Trying for a settlement, the eleven-company negotiating committee secretly submitted a better offer while negotiations were recessed. The new offer 1) raised the management proposal on wage increases and fringe benefits slightly (to 30? an hour by the companies' reckoning, spread over three years); 2) increased cost-of-living increases to a maximum of 8? v. 3? previously offered, and 3) proposed a two-man union and management committee to try to solve work-rule problems. If no agreement is reached by June 30, the questions will be submitted to arbitration...