Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topic which was beaten to death in University Hall last year is showing new and encouraging signs of life. This year a student committee is attempting to keep alive a proposal to allow full Radcliffe membership in Harvard extracurricular organizations...
Johnson also announced that he is preparing a report on the second most important topic on the Council's agenda, the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. The executive committee last week discussed the matter with Dean Watson, who "didn't know too much about it," but felt that the Council "had a right to investigate the situation," Johnson said...
...becoming routine: Russian arms have been arriving in Syria in quantity for two years. Damascus itself was calm in the summer sunshine, but whether Syria's plain citizens realized it or not (the heavily censored press gave them little to go on), their country was the No. 1 topic in chancelleries and foreign offices around the world. Cabinets met to consider Syria; her neighbor Arab nations hurried into consultation. Some trigger-happy U.S. radio commentators, grappling by the hour with a confused and shifting political story, helped confuse it further by proclaiming that Syria was already Russia...
With reference to your article on Paratrooper Flugum's death during training at Fort Bragg, N.C.: this incident has been the topic of discussion by many paratroopers who have constantly wondered why in Heaven's name somebody did not cut Flugum loose from the plane and let him pull his reserve. Most of us carry a knife with us for such a specific purpose...
Flying into Cairo with an escort of four Soviet-built Egyptian MIGs, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spent five hours chatting with Egypt's fire-eating President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Presumed topic A: resumption of relations between Egypt and Great Britain. Middleman Nehru's neutralist comment after the confab: Anglo-Egyptian relations are "progressively returning to normal...