Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three thousand feet below, terrace on terrace, lay the storybook village of Grindelwald, famed as a skier's paradise. The girl whose level, blue-grey eyes surveyed this prospect may or may not have been awed by the majesty of the view. What she said was reverent, appreciative, American: "Scenic as hell!" Last week her interest in the Grindel-wald view was more technical than esthetic. She was looking at a slalom course: a series of precipitous pitches and inclines, outlined by guide poles, designed to test the racing mettle of the world's best skiers...
...should be treated as a hero in acknowledgement? Acts of heroism happen every day on a much higher level where men risk their lives to save others and remain for the most part unknown. After all, Captain Carlsen only tried to save a ship and the few hundred thousand dollars worth of cargo it was carrying. And I fail to see what else he could have done without risking to lose his job. All the newspapers, including the CRIMSON, had a front page article on Captain Carlsen, but the fact that such a hero as General Delattre De Tassigny...
...problem. The cow is like our mother. Perhaps Congress will next suggest that we should kill our mothers and eat them." The voters howled in disgust at such a wicked thing, not knowing that there are in fact no such plans afoot. "The slavery of the British was a thousand times better than the Freedom of today," the candidate went on. "I swear by the Goddess Chamunda that if elected I will continue to serve the people as my ancestors have done for seven hundred years...
LIFE'S Picture History of Western Man. A vividly illustrated panorama of a thousand years of Western civilization (TIME...
...letters bemoaning the cruelty of all legislators who would send anyone under twenty into military service, was resurrected last Saturday by Representative Carl Vinson, head of the House Armed Services Committee. As a step toward launching a Universal Military Training system, he proposed a plan which would enable sixty thousand men in the seventeen-to-nineteen age bracket to volunteer for six months of training and eighteen months on active reserve. At least sixty thousand students could achieve some measure of certainty under this program, and it could be expanded into a full UMST program at whatever pace the Army...