Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need for leadership been so great or the leader's task so complex and fateful. In 1952, the U.S.'s (and therefore the President's) responsibility reaches into the farthest corners of the earth. It faces the greatest threat to free societies in a thousand years. It must deal not only with governments, with armies, with billions of money, with staggering weapons of destruction on the brink of war; it must deal with the souls of men-must, in Eisenhower's words, "persuade the world by peaceful means to believe the truth." That is the measure...
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, went all out to raise $1,198,750, the largest sum it ever collected in a voluntary drive. Six thousand volunteers went from door to door, decorated store windows, took part in rallies for shops and factories...
...windswept field near Bolivia's big Catavi tin mine, President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped to a rude table one day last week and with a golden pen signed the decree nationalizing the country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing...
Today's contest, which marks the 75th anniversary of the start of round-robin competition between Harvard, Yale and Princeton, will begin at 1:30 p.m. Thirty-five thousand will watch...
Cashmore does not even have the support of a disgruntled Liberal Party, which was ready to campaign vigorously for Harriman. Dissatisfied with Cashmore, the Liberals nominated George S. Counts, a professor of education at Columbia. The four to five hundred thousand votes that the Liberals are thus pulling from Cashmore in this manner, make the Democrat's election virtually impossible. Even the regular party machine men, led by Tammany boss Cavmine De Sapio are pessimistic at the loss of Liberal support and awed by Ives' personal popularity; they have not been working for Cashmore...