Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat is held by Democrat Edward Boland of Springfield, who was so sure of re-election that he planned to spend most of his time campaigning for Furcolo. G.O.P. planners reasoned that entering an Eisenhower-blessed candidate against Boland would ease the pressure on Saltonstall and bring a few thousand extra Republican voters to the polls. No one really expected Bradley to win his own election, but G.O.P. strategists were counting on him for a sacrifice hit. This intricate piece of planning, with White House blessing, was evidence of a new kind of political consciousness on the part of Dwight...
Those happy-go-lucky anti-blues pills, Meratran [TIME, June 28], will set civilization back a thousand years. No more worried people, no unhappy love affairs, no discontented workers. Have a pill, friend! No war, no peace talks, no useless trips to the doctor, no kicking the dog around and no teeth knocked out. If this is a preview of heaven, count me out . . . The Creator was wise in creating the discontented human species . . . Under this pill system, people will shoot themselves just for the hell...
...likes to describe himself as one of the world's two practicing Eskimologists*), the climate of the Arctic has been warming up, making agriculture possible where it has not been practiced in modern times. Southern Greenlanders are raising cattle and sheep as the Viking colonists did a thousand years ago-before their colony was destroyed, probably by increasing cold. Oats can be grown in Iceland and cabbages near Fort George on James Bay. The timber line is steadily creeping northward across the Canadian tundra...
...hundred thousand men and women in brightly colored turbans and saris, standing in the 100° sun, cheered Prime Minister Nehru one day last week as he pressed a button and sent tons of water roaring through a new canal toward the parched deserts of India's thirsty East Punjab. Along the 238-mile, tile-lined concrete canal, devout Hindus burned camphor. Tears ran down the wrinkled cheeks of old peasants who, in past years, had seen their children and their cattle perish in drought...
...country scot free (see below). Two ranking Communists-Carlos Manuel Pellecer and Victor Manuel Gutierrez-had quit embassies and joined a third, Alfredo Guerra Borges, in hiding. They might try to make backlands trouble for Castillo Armas, if they were willing to risk being caught and shot. Two thousand minor suspects were held for questioning in jails just vacated by the anti-Communists Arbenz kept there...