Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months had passed since Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap conquered the Thai country lying between Red China and Laos (see map). Instead of throwing all his forces against several hundred thousand French Union and Vietnamese troops bottled up in the Red River delta and in the airstrip at Nasan, Giap began probing the defenses of Laos with his Viet Minh commandos. In his exquisite white palace overlooking the palm-fringed Mekong River, aging (67), crew-cropped King Sisavang Vong told the French: "This is my country; this is my palace; I am too old to tremble before danger." Not until...
...this country, and we want some sort of sympathetic association." After only a couple of months on the air, Private Secretary-a sort of junior-size I Love Lucy-has built up an audience of a good portion of those 5,000,000 secretaries, plus a few hundred thousand others...
...Seventy thousand lives were saved last year by early detection of cancer, the American Cancer Society estimated. If every case had been detected early and treated by the best known methods, 140,000 might have been saved. Launching it's 1953 drive for $18 million, the society said that with present knowledge, cancer-cure rates can be increased thus: lung, 5% to 50%; rectum, 15% to 75%; mouth, 40% to 65%; skin, 85% to 95%; female reproductive system, from 30% to 80%; breast...
...Negro population has been growing steadily in Washington for twenty years. In the schools there are new four thousand more Negro children than white. But this increase in number has not brought increased toleration; Negroes are barred from most restaurants and Negro school facilities are overcrowded and inferior...
...bear the brunt of each English team's travel expenses. Since the meets do not draw well here, the funds would this year, as usual, have to be provided outright by each college. The H.A.A. has decided that it does not this year possess the necessary two to three thousand dollars; Princeton, Yale, and Cornell are somewhat uncertain...