Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, at 45 the youngest president in the 80-year history of the A.B.A., talks about Law Day, he loses the leisurely North Carolina cadence of his speech; his brown eyes glint behind plastic-rimmed glasses; he clenches his fist, and his knuckles turn white. Law Day is, essentially, the expression of his feeling for the law. And the law has all the deeper meaning to Lawyer Rhyne because he became a man of law the hard...
Togliatti "never bet a cent on Khrushchev," continued Seniga. "He thought he was worth very little." Togliatti's newspaper L'Unita called the turn wrong on Zhukov, thinking the marshal was about to be promoted instead of sacked. Each morning for three years, Togliatti reportedly walked into Communist Party headquarters in Rome with the same question: "What news from the peasant?" Whenever the reply was "Nothing new." Togliatti would sigh, "Then today we can work in peace." After Hungary brought a flood of desertions from the Italian Red Party, Togliatti told an intimate: "See where Khrushchev has brought...
Fearful that twelve miles might win, the U.S. finally agreed to turn its face from 165 years of tradition, and offered to compromise on a six-mile territorial sea limit, plus an additional six-mile fishing zone, with the proviso that any foreign nation that "regularly for the period of five years" had been fishing in that zone should be allowed to continue. This, said Arthur Dean, represented "extraordinary sacrifices" by the U.S., but "those who came here believing in the straight twelve-mile limit have not budged an inch...
...Crimson tennis team will play host to powerful Princeton tomorrow at 1 p.m. on the Soldiers' Field courts, but the Tigers may well turn out to be unwelcome guests. The varsity will go into the match with a clean Eastern League record, yesterday having swamped Brown...
...past year and more is forthcoming. Some hardy soul who cares not at all that dealers are finding French art increasingly scarce might try his hand at figuring out what happened to the painter's geist in Germany since the days of Durer and Chranach. It may well turn out to be a tragedy in the best Sophoclean tradition...