Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israeli intervention, Ike is more committed than the U.S. perhaps originally intended to a peaceful and prosperous Israel in the Middle East. When the President of the U.S. summons the restive leaders of the Senate to a tough-talking session and then goes on the air to say what the U.S. is prepared to do to see that the Israelis do not have to face the same aggression again from Egypt, this amounts to more than sounding words of sympathy. The personal messages that Ike sent Ben-Gurion mark a further degree of commitment...
...Conquer. The slogan of the Kadar regime is "Order, Peace and Collaboration," but its strategy has been to divide the country by cracking down hard on industrial workers and intellectuals and building up the peasantry, who gave the Russians relatively the least trouble last October. Rakosi had been tough on the peasants ("Every Kulak is guilty of something"), but Kadar has redistributed the national income in favor of the peasants, even made the hated farm collectivization program voluntary. For the first time nylon stockings and suede shoes are within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about...
...March 4), was finally cleared up. Not very silent on a peak in St. Moritz, Greek Shipping Tycoon Stavros Spyros Niarchos let it be known last week that he is the collector for whom Manhattan's M. Knoedler & Co. Inc. bought 58 paintings and a bronze from Movie Tough Guy Robinson...
Married. James Jones, 35, determinedly tough bestselling novelist (From Here to Eternity); and Gloria Patricia Mosolino, 29; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
While Plymouth was pushing ahead of Buick, Ford was giving Chevrolet tough competition for first place, and in hopes of bigger sales, was actually outproducing Chevrolet. In the first two months Ford turned out 286,923 cars, up nearly 48,000 from last year, and some 10,000 ahead of Chevy. Overall, G.M.'s production was 10% under last year. Except for Pontiac and Cadillac, all of its divisions had trimmed production sharply, and G.M. was producing only 47% of the nation's cars v. 53% last year. Automen pointed out that production did not necessarily match sales...