Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss has an eye toward being some sort of mellow Pirandello, but though he uses all the standard reality-illusion devices, it is hard to tell what he is trying to do with them. It is not enough for a playwright merely to discusss "reality and illusion"; he ought at least to appear to have something to say about them...
...implores her to give up her collaboration and return to the German side and the rationality of her past life. She cannot forsake the dying men on the other side of the river, but declares that after this last act of merciful contrition towards the unattainable standard of humaneness, she will return. It is a tragic attempt at a moral compromise--her own conciliation of the universal conscience--it races to its unavoidable conclusion as, delivering the drugs, she is caught in a cross-fire on the bridge...
...targets so high that it pledges Russia to top U.S. production by "about" 1970. By that time, boasted Nikita in "theses" outlining the plan that his Central Committee will present to the 21st Communist Party Congress next January, the Soviet people "will be assured the world's highest standard of living." By 1965, cried Khrushchev, the Communist bloc countries will bt producing more than half the world's output...
Jordan's King Hussein was off at last on his long-planned three-week vacation in Europe. With the man who taught him to fly, R.A.F. Wing Commander Jock Dalgleish, beside him as copilot, the young King flew his twin-engined de Havilland Dove, with the royal Hashemite standard painted on its stabilizer, humming high above the Syrian desert at a modest 160 m.p.h. Suddenly the Damascus radio crackled a warning that the plane had no overflight clearance, demanded the identity of its crew and passengers. The King refused and turned the controls over to Dalgleish, defying an airport...
...phenomenon of the 1958 business recovery. On all but one day last week, stocks climbed to new records, closed the week at 564.68 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 10.42 for the week to an alltime record.* The Dow-Jones industrial average, most volatile of the averages, and Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks weeks ago exceeded their alltime highs; last week, at long last, they were followed by a slowpoke: the New York Times combined average of 25 industrial and 25 railroad stocks, which broke through its alltime high set in August 1956. Crowed the Times...