Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lengthening the fuse. Answered Gromyko: The duration of the temporary agreement was "a matter neither of major importance nor of principle" to Russia, and if the German talks failed, Moscow contemplated renewed Big Four talks, not unilateral action. This modification, made since the last session at Geneva, was one thing the West hoped to nail down. The Reds further demanded that the West cut down its 11,000 troops in West Berlin to "symbolic levels," while the West riposted with an offer to consider only "symbolic cuts," a quite different idea...
...strong-minded Jayaprakash Narayan, 56 (TIME, July 6). who was long considered Nehru's heir, ripped away the pretense that the Dalai Lama is in India for any reason except "to fight for his country and his people. Any patriot in his position would have done the same thing. Will you please imagine what would have happened if Nehru at the age of 25 had found himself in the place of the Dalai Lama? Imagine the storm and thunder that would have burst upon the world from the hills of Mussoorie!" Remembering the fiery young Nehru, the crowd applauded...
Says Dr. Njoroge: "The important thing in Kenya is to stimulate the people to help themselves. They are eager and active, but they need direction. They have never had a hospital; I hope they will raise it as their own baby...
...show. This season he is already booked for the part of the prima donna in Friml's The Firefly. Still he complains that opportunities are limited. ("I was slated for a part as one of the strippers in Gypsy, but Ethel Merman nixed me.") It is a sad thing, says Jones, that "today, female impersonation is a dying art. It goes back to 300 B.C. The Roman, Greek and Japanese theaters relied on it; Elizabethan plays were done...
...most dangerous thing that can happen to old people who were once attractive is to forget that they no longer...