Word: take
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic weapons was heavily responsible for NATO's inadequate state. When Twining's remarks were leaked to the Associated Press, France's touchy officialdom howled with injured pride. The touchiness increased with the U.S. abstention in the U.N. Assembly vote on Algeria, which France did not take as indifferently as the U.S. expected (TIME, Dec. 21) and with Eisenhower's joint declaration with Tunisian President Bourguiba that the continued fighting in Algeria was "a cause of grave concern." When Secretary of State Herter, arriving in Paris, opened a courtesy call on French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve...
...Take the candy trade. A janitress at a food store studied the tastes of sweet-toothed small fry, concluded that what they liked most were toy-shaped confections. She went home, out of sugared batter molded a swan with raisin eyes, baked it, and promptly sold it to a schoolboy for 2 rubles. Encouraged, she turned more and more batter into dough, spawned a swarm of home bakeries among women in the Moscow suburb of Stolbovaya. Was such initiative encouraged? Moskovskaya Pravda urged the bureaucrats of the "Red Front" candy factory to undercut these "unsanitary private confectioners" by mass-producing...
Although Edinburgh-educated Nyerere dislikes some parts of the new agreement with Britain, he has agreed to support it for four years before taking the next step, full African self-rule. He even insists that the civil service (2,800 whites, 300 Africans) remain predominantly British until Tanganyikans can be trained, and acknowledges the permanent right of Tanganyika's whites and Asians to have a minority share in government. Blessed with a sensible African leader in a territory with no large white settler population, Britain was happy to make Tanganyika its first testing ground for self-rule in East...
...Japanese, who have no love for Koreans, would like to be rid of them. South Korea's strong-minded President Syngman Rhee, who once underwent torture at Japanese behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason: he already has more manpower than he can find jobs for. In contrast, Kim II Sung's devastated and manpower hungry Communist North Korea is eager to take in all the Koreans it can find...
...eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound...