Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again Moscow speaks: the heads of state of the leading free nations are invited to a new meeting at the summit. They accept. There is nothing else to do. Russia has the whip hand at last...
...Russia's journalistic gates are not open to all. Several visa applications from U.S. newsmen are still pending, and last week Moscow announced the first outright rejection of a U.S. correspondent's application since the Geneva summit meeting last July. The unwelcome one: the New York Times's Harrison Salisbury, 47, whom some in the U.S. found too uncritical during his 1949-54 sojourn in Russia, but whom the Russians found "slanderous" in the Pulitzer Prizewinning series he wrote after he left...
McNiff described attendance at the library as a curve which reaches the summit before finals, high points around hour exams, and the very bottom the evenings before the Princeton and Yale football games...
...Superintendent Charles E. Wingo of Argo, Summit and Bedford Park, 111. uses a system originally started by the late Julie Hay, a longtime Bedford Park schoolteacher. Teacher Hay figured out that 87% of all the syllables in the abridged Webster's dictionary are phonetic. The Hay-Wingo system begins with the short vowel sounds, then the ten most commonly used consonants. After that come the long vowel sounds and the ,rest of the consonants. Within two months, local teachers claim, "the children are unlocking words-on their...
Ford reached this summit after a decade of steady climbing. In 1946, on sales of roughly $900 million, it lost $8,000,000. It rode into the black the next year with a net income of $63 million, almost quadrupled the figure by last year with $228 million. Passenger-car and truck sales last year were 1,991,000, or 30% of the U.S. auto industry's total v. G.M.'s 50% and Chrysler's 13%. In the first nine months of this year, net income of $312 million was well above last year...