Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson has been appointed a Visiting Lecturer on Government for the spring term. Formerly editor of the "Economist," she has written books and articles of political affairs that are internationally famous. In addition to numerous contributions to American periodicals, she has written "The West at Bay," "Policy for the West," and "Faith and Freedom...
...foreign policy line (also approved by unanimous da) has been shaping up since the visit of Khrushchev, Bulganin and Mikoyan to Belgrade last spring. It aims as aggressively as ever at subjecting the world to Communism, but without Stalin's rigid preachments about the "inevitability" of violence: his successors are out to make Communists look more peaceful and disarming to the neutrals of Asia and the uncommitted Arab world. (India's Nehru has already pronounced Moscow's changes "welcomed in every way.") By their acceptance of peaceful change, moreover, Khrushchev & Co. hope to make time with Socialists...
...handbook slogan for party workers. In cities like Shanghai (pop. 7,000,000), the terrorists made sure that people would know about "the way of death" by staging machine gun executions on the paddyfields, and sending through the streets open wagons bearing people bound hand and foot. Then one spring night in 1951 the sirens wailed in Shanghai, and all night long the police wagons sped about the city. Next morning there was nothing in the newspapers to indicate what had happened, but as people began checking with friends, horror spread through Shanghai: it was reckoned that 100,000 people...
LUFTHANSA, the West German airline reborn less than a year ago, is growing up fast. This spring Lufthansa will expand its 66 intercontinental flights weekly to 488, double schedules to England, France and Spain, switch from five-weekly to daily New York service, add Rio and Buenos Aires to its routes...
Sometimes we thought it was and sometimes we thought it wasn't. But now that there are finally Bermuda shorts on the streets, mud on the ground and athletes on the fields, we can be certain that Spring is here...