Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet minister in Paris one afternoon last week. To the astonishment of most of them, the principal guest proved to be Moscow's Ambassador to France-busy, birdlike Sergei Vinogradov, one of the new Soviet breed of laughing-boy diplomats. Even more astonishing was Vinogradov's chosen topic of conversation: maintenance of French power in North Africa...
...Summer Employment Office will hold a meeting this evening at 7:30 in New Lecture Hall on the topic, "How to Get a Summer Job." Speakers will provide information on the present employment situation in construction and other industries...
Debating the topic "Resolved: That requirement of membership in a labor union as a condition of employment should be made illegal," Bynum and Kincaid lost to the same Northwestern team they had defeated earlier in the competition. The balloting in the final round was 4 to 3 in favor of North-western...
Cause of this stormy marathon was, as usual, France's most divisive topic: Algeria. When a French Premier wants to take a necessary but unpopular step, he usually waits until the French Assembly is in recess so that he cannot be thrown out of office immediately. But the right-wingers in his Cabinet, who oppose any concessions in Algeria, were committed to quit in a body if Gaillard misstepped, and thus even in parliamentary recess his hands were tied...
Since almost everyone seems to have decided that the recession will not get any worse, the main topic of business conversation last week centered around when the recession would end. The answer depended somewhat on who was talking. New York's Guaranty Trust Co. took a banker's grey view: "Prospects for a definite end . . . remain highly uncertain, despite . . . comment that the bottom may be close at hand." Said the equally august Chase Manhattan Bank: "It is possible that we may see an end before long...