Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deterred by Russian rocket rattling from deploying into the Middle East, and Middle East military men could not help noticing that the Russians had notably not intervened. To Nasser, in Moscow after the Iraq revolt last fortnight, Khrushchev boasted that he had weapons that could turn the Sixth Fleet into "coffins of molten steel for its sailors," but Khrushchev's Security Chief Ivan Serov nonetheless warned Nasser to fly home overland, because "your plane dare not fly over the sea because they could shoot it down with rockets...
...told Tunisian Ambassador Mohammed Masmoudi: "We are not at all opposed to Tunisia having its share of the Sahara's resources." The French and Tunisians signed an agreement to build the pipeline across Tunisia at a cost of $95 million, which will give jobs to 2,000 Tunisians, turn the sleepy Tunisian port of Gabes into an active trade center and attract capital to a backward area...
...Infantile Paralysis announced last week a change of name and a raising of its sights against far commoner ills than polio. Henceforth to be called simply the National Foundation, the aggressive organization that spent $34 million on the research that produced (among other gains) the Salk vaccine * will turn its attention to two other cripplers: the rheumatic diseases and defects present in children at birth...
Until the turn of the century, such infants always died. Then came operations to allow feeding (usually by tube) through the abdominal wall into the stomach. Many victims struggled along for years with these makeshifts. About 20 years ago, surgeons got bolder, devised several operations to supply a missing stretch of gullet by stitching a piece of the child's gut in its place. Appallingly complex, these techniques often needed a series of operations spread over a period of years. They could be done only in major medical centers...
...great things are done for Shakespeare, they seem certain to be done here. Much progress has been made, much remains to be made. The people involved must not slacken for a moment. We must support them to the limit and say, "Get on with the job." They in turn must do just that; for that is now their duty as well as their privilege...