Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WITH Ben-Gurion preparing to withdraw from Egyptian soil, the world's eyes swung to another defier of U.N. resolutions, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose country since 1951 has ignored a U.N. resolution to let Israeli ships through the Suez Canal. Would Nasser now agree to final clearance of the canal and negotiate an acceptable contract for its operation? Gamal Abdel Nasser is a man who once aroused universal admiration, then widespread concern. His brief career has now reached a fateful turning. For a new estimate of the 39-year-old dictator of the Nile, see FOREIGN...
...India, where he recently demonstrated to the locals the military art of bayoneting (TIME, Feb. 11), Soviet Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov swung a sword at his longtime bond with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked by newsmen for his view of Ike's new Middle East doctrine, Marshal Zhukov declared that though the new policy may not be Eisenhower's own idea, "it is a step toward war." Then he said deliberately: "Eisenhower is my old friend as a soldier [but] I do not know what is left of him as a soldier-whether he is still the same...
...editor and organizer, reached the national executive committee the year Hitler took over. Hitler, like Bismarck before him, suppressed the party. After twelve years' exile in Czechoslovakia, France and wartime Britain, Ollenhauer was one of three surviving leaders who met to rebuild the party in 1946. He swung behind the fiery nationalist Kurt Schumacher against Otto Grotewohl's plan to merge with the Communists (Grotewohl wound up as Premier of Communist East Germany), succeeded to the top job on Schumacher's death in 1952. Schumacher, whose health was crushed in the concentration camps...
...C.I.O. Maritime Trades Department; of a heart attack; in Burlingame. Calif. Tattooed, Norwegian-born Harry Lundeberg never ducked a waterfront strike or a dock brawl, feuded for years with the West Coast longshoremen's left-wing Boss Harry Bridges (and once got a smashed jaw from a C.I.O.-swung baseball bat), had an old syndicalist's hatred of both Communists and capitalists ("Squeeze the shipowners . . . make them lose dough...
...sensitive that it could photograph a tennis ball, half-lit by the sun, 1,000 miles away, or a V-2 rocket at the distance of the moon. It covered a 13° field, 26 times the apparent diameter of the full moon, and a complicated driving mechanism swung it across the sky, fast for nearby satellites, slower for satellites farther away. On its plates the stars showed as streaks. A satellite, if one had been found, would have shown as a dot or a short track...