Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Dubois' assault, the Moroccan government made a slight concession: instead of being whisked off to France in the early morning as originally planned, the deportees were allowed to remain in Morocco till midafternoon to settle their affairs, then sped by air to Paris. Next day, with pointed timing, the Moroccan Foreign Office notified Ambassador Dubois that it planned to revoke a long-standing arrangement which allows French citizens to enter Morocco without a visa...
Married. Ljuba ("I am a ripe wooman") Welitch, 42, redhaired, dumpling-shaped Bulgarian soprano whose sensual Salome at the Metropolitan Opera (1949) had audiences hanging on till the seventh veil; and handsome Vienna Traffic Cop Karl Schmalvogl, 29; both for the second time; in Vienna...
...their work space in the Exhibition Hall of Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, TIME reporters pecked urgently at typewriters from early till late last week, while wire-service tickers clicked, Teletypes clattered and telephones jangled. This was our communications center for the Democratic Convention. Before the week was out, a similar center went into operation in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins, to forward preliminary stories on the Republican Convention. From the two centers will flow some half million words to help our editors not only report but illuminate the news of the conventions...
...make good on that boast, he works a ferocious schedule, often staying up till 4 a.m. dictating letters and memos on every subject of government. He is a tireless reader of the newspapers, and cons the entire Arab world press daily, down to the last movie review. It is one of the world's" misfortunes that, never having lived in a free country, Nasser does not grasp how Western policy is made, and tends to read all sorts of secret motivations and nonexistent attitudes of governments into the comments of the foreign press. He has become excessively sensitive...
...have a rough idea. I can tell you that three are in London. Two . . . are playing croquet. One has just been given ?20 to start breeding budgerigars [parakeets]. Another is thinking of making a telescope, but won't get a penny till he shows that he means it. And one has run away...