Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill," roared a voice from the gallery, "wouldn't have tolerated them!" The meeting wound up with cheers and a unanimous resolution deploring the Russian visit. "The tide has very definitely turned," crowed Malcolm Muggeridge...
...nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about 80,000 prostitutes*(the Lancet's estimate...
...France suffered one reverse after another in North Africa, many Frenchmen came to believe that the U.S. was indifferent to the decay of the French empire, and even regarded with complacence the possibility of French eviction from Algeria, a part of metropolitan France since 1848. To counter the rising tide of anti-Americanism in France, a clarification of the U.S. position on North Africa was long overdue. Last week, in a Paris speech approved in advance by President Eisenhower, U.S. Ambassador to France C. (for Clarence) Douglas Dillon made that clarification. Said he: are today a number of people...
...heart of the city. Minister Resident Robert Lacoste arrived just in time to face down an angry committee of mayors who were threatening to strike if some 100 terrorists in French jails were not executed immediately, clapped a midnight-to-dawn curfew on the whole city. But the tide of hate ran on. In a single day 47 rebels and two Frenchmen were killed. The. dead bodies of another 100-odd victims were turned up in the course of the week. The president of the Algerian Assembly resigned, declaring: "The Franco-Musulman community has ceased to exist." French reinforcements poured...
...tide turned in 1950 as the world's economy recovered and demand increased for more luxurious, better-feeling fabrics. Orders for silk organdy-lightweight yet stiff enough for full-skirted cocktail dresses-poured into Cohama's Tokyo office. Exports of organdy rose from 35,000 yds. in 1949 to 1,600,000 yds. in 1951. When the organdy phase faded, others replaced it: silk faille shipments went from 30,000 yds. in 1950 to 500,000 yds. in 1955; silk print shipments soared...