Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle above all men knew, he had taken only one more calculated step down a long road. In Cairo the F.L.N.'s government in exile, which had been proclaiming its eagerness to talk peace, now betrayed its fear that De Gaulle had the upper hand. Premier Ferhat Abbas bluntly rejected the idea of going to Paris, which would seem like surrender, insisted that negotiations take place in "some neutral country." Yet De Gaulle had placed the F.L.N. rebels in a delicate position. For the first time, Paris had a government not about to topple at any moment...
Holly Golightly, 18, is a cross between a grown-up Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame. A piquantly wacky ex-hillbilly who lives in a Manhattan upper East Side brownstone, she is a kind of expense-account tramp; as she puts it in her own countdown, "I've only had eleven lovers...
...reflected in the doubling of the numbers of honors candidates since 1950. And not least important, he has brought a little of Harvard to Northampton by instituting "interdepartmental" courses, the content and approach of which cut across traditional departmental lines. The interdepartmental courses have their analogy here in the upper-level General Education courses...
...sign is the tendency of young families with children--both graduate students and upper middle-class families--to move outside of Cambridge." Mrs. Wheeler said, "The only people left to bridge the gap are young people with no feeling of responsibility and older, retired people...
...Louisiana, or the predictability of Vermont's. Traditionally, the Republicans pit a Puritan Beacon Hiller against a Democrat recently arisen from Boston's South End. This year the situation has changed: for one of the two major state posts, the Democrats have nominated a fair-haired boy from the upper classes, and the Republicans have chosen two relatively unknown political hacks in their nearly hopeless campaign effort. All four candidates are united in one respect: they are mediocre...