Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always taken the pro-Afrikaner view in all his disputes. It said that it could not support the "width of impact of the church clause." At the church's Stellenbosch Seminary, Theology Professor B. B. Keet, a blunt Afrikaner, spelled out what may prove the turn of the tide in South Africa's official segregation policy. "It will be suicidal," said Keet, "for the white group in South Africa to continue to try to apply the impractical and immoral policy of apartheid, which can only be implemented by use of force...
...there is little on the horizon to indicate any real slackening in the economic tide. In a report issued this week, the Twentieth Century Fund declared that U.S. productive power has grown at such a spectacular rate over the last half-century that the American economy has assumed entirely new dimensions. "The U.S. has not merely climbed to a new plateau but is ascending heights whose upper limit is not yet measurable, and at an accelerated rate of speed. Our long-term trend is unmistakably upward...
Such a two-step agreement, Harold Stassen stressed, would help reverse the tide of nuclear armament while still leaving the U.S. with "substantial nuclear-weapons capacity...
...ensure the promise that the water would reach Los Angeles, the little city annexed the valley. In the years that followed, the Owens Valley dried out, San Fernando bloomed, and Los Angeles, which still gets 69% of its water from the aqueduct, crept beyond its boundaries like a flood tide, bringing into its fold other nearby cities, which had to annex themselves to the city to get the water...
According to Warsaw, Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich all spoke during the debate, but on the next-to-last day, seeing the tide turning against them, all joined abjectly in a bout of selfcriticism. To get his unanimous vote of condemnation against them, Khrushchev was reported to have promised his crony Bulganin that sanctions would not be imposed on the four men: i.e., their lives would be spared. If Khrushchev so promised, would he keep that promise...