Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary worry, the doctor admitted, is how to keep the hand laundry going fast enough to provide "what seems like a thousand clean diapers a day." The hospital operates on a meager budget of $6,000 a year, and the great need, says Dr. Crane, is toys. Toys of any kind-old, fancy or plain -for the youngsters who have seen so little color and happiness in the bare hills of southwest Korea...
Good Beginning. At South Dakota's Mount Rushmore National Memorial several thousand Young Republicans and guests gathered to see him. Standing beneath the looming, 60-ft. tall faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, which the late Gutzon Borglum carved out of the granite mountainside, Ike delivered the most frankly political report he had made since Election Day. Proudly, he emphasized the "good beginning" which his Administration had made in its five months in power. Its greatest achievement: "We have instituted what amounts almost to a revolution in Federal Government, as we have seen it operating...
...think first of ... saving, the integer ... we call home. In fact, we must break ourselves of thinking in the empty and clanging terms of ... 'fatherland' or 'race' or 'color' or 'creed' . . . Home: not where I live . . . but where we live: a thousand then tens of thousands of little integers scattered and fixed firmer and more impregnable and more solid than rocks or citadels about the earth, so that the ruthless and ambitious split-offs of the ancient dark spirit shall look at the one and say, 'There is nothing...
...Indonesians like to call themselves "The Children of the East." Their cultural values were formed during a thousand years of Brahminist-Buddhist teaching, culminating in the great, 14th century Hindu-Javanese civilization of Madjapahit. Then came the swift, peaceful penetration of Islam. Securing a firm but gentle grip on the islands (Indonesia is now the world's largest Moslem nation), Islam took on a subtle duality. Moslem mosques assumed Hindu temple forms; followers were called to prayer on Oriental gongs. While putting on the cloak of Islam, the Indonesians remained essentially Eastern; nor has their character changed under...
...race to bring the coronation films U.S. TV was lost by the fiercely competitive hares (CBS and NBC) and won by the easygoing tortoise (ABC). In fact, stay-at-home ABC did not even realize it was in a race. While CBS and NBC were spending hundreds of thousands on planes, men and technical gadgets, ABC spent only a few thousand on a microwave relay to link up the A.T. & T. at Buffalo to the Montreal outlet of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. ABC did not even plan to go on the air with its show until the evening of coronation...