Word: topical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days the Foreign Ministers of Britain, Greece and Turkey met in London to discuss the burning topic that was disrupting their NATO friendship. The problem was Cyprus, a British colony and British bastion in the Mediterranean...
...resign a neurological appointment in London for making inquiries into the sexual life of patients." By 1910 the mere mention of Freud's theories was enough to start the chairman of a Hamburg congress. Herr Professor Wilhelm Weygandt. banging his fist and shouting: "This is not a topic for discussion at a scientific meeting; it is a matter for the police...
...advertising staffs who have no newspaper experience. Furthermore, they have no contact with top management, have no idea of what goes on in the president's office. Some editors, in turn, often show an ostrich-like attitude to important stories, e.g., one southern industrial editor insisted that a topic like the Guaranteed Annual Wage "did not apply" to his 60,000 C.I.O. readers. During the bitter strike by the Communications Workers of America last spring against the Southern Bell Telephone Co. in nine states, Bell's slick-paper employee magazine blandly ignored the strike-the single topic...
...Anthony Eden called eleven members of his Tory Cabinet back from vacation for a special session last week. The main speaker was Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. Butler, and his topic was trouble...
...Topic A in Guatemala City last week was the $25,000 check that an importing firm had issued to the nation's President. When the news broke a fortnight ago that Carlos Castillo Armas had deposited the check to his bank account, he promptly volunteered a calm and reasonable explanation: the $25,000 represented nothing more sinister than the repayment of a personal loan to an old friend, Mario Bolanos García, head of Comercial Guatemalteca. But the explanation left some king-size questions: Why was a personal loan repaid with a check on Comercial Guatemalteca, instead...