Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between India and Tibet, following the spur of the Himalayas through wild and remote country. Declared Nehru last week: "So far as we are concerned the McMahon line is the firm frontier, firm by treaty, firm by right, firm by usage and firm by geography." Therefore he could not understand what Chou En-lai meant by referring to China's "undefined frontiers with its southern neighbors...
...hatless and usually coatless in the bitterest weather, Rhoads directed his campaign against cancer with a crusader's zeal. He trod on many toes, was accused of being arbitrary and autocratic, of regimenting his 300 elite researchers and their supporting forces. Dr. Rhoads believed that the public must understand cancer research to support it, talked freely to the press. Subject of a TIME cover (June 27, 1949), he was photographed at the helm of his sailboat. This was what a willful band of little men in the New York County Medical Society had been waiting for. Jealous, they threatened...
...conceit resulting from its great achievements. It has wrongly assessed its own powers, exaggerated its own importance and given insufficient attention to the roles played by other national forces." Furthermore, the Communist paper itself has "dealt in an inflammatory manner with certain events." Just so everybody would understand its previous "wrong assessment," the Central Committee now assured everyone that "the party condemns all draggings, torture, pillage...
...first album, Sing Along with Mitch, was a rousing bestseller when it came out 15 months ago. The 28 choristers, picked from a local aviary of singing commercialists, managed to sound like so many lonesome Kiwanians mooning by the banks of the Budweiser. The words were easy to understand-for good measure, they were printed on the jacket-and the repertory never got far from the old millstream. By last week, Columbia and Conductor Miller had issued five more albums, and the sing-along series had sold an astounding 1,750,000 copies...
...could never get into it because I don't like the guy. Maybe it's because I just can't understand him," he said...