Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considering hundreds of position papers. In some respects it goes farther than what the West put forward at the fruitless Geneva summit session in 1955. Though still insisting that German reunification must be brought about through free elections, it no longer insists on elections first. And it makes ingenious use of the Russian notion that reunification is something for the two Germanies to solve themselves. Main points...
Raging River. Although Nehru's feelings about China were undoubtedly strong, they were couched in his own curious brand of spongy language ("An attempt to explain the situation by the use of rather worn-out words, phrases and slogans is seldom helpful"). If he hoped thereby that Peking would as softly reply, he misjudged his antagonist. Peking began a hue and cry about how "intolerable" Nehru's remarks were, and set in motion the whole dreary ritual of thousands of agitation meetings to condemn Nehru...
...then why had De Gaulle always refused to use the word "integration," meaning that Algeria is as integral a part of France as Normandy? Said De Gaulle: "What have I done since I have been in power? In 1943 I gave the Moslems the right to vote. Isn't this already integration? Those who shout loudest for integration are the selfsame people who opposed this step then. What they want is for somebody to give them back Papa's Algeria. But Papa's Algeria is dead, and if they don't understand that, they will...
...recruit him. At St. George's Church, in London's working-class Camberwell district, Anglican Father Geoffrey Beaumont followed prayers for a new bishop with another: "Let us pray for Terry Dene, a young man who has been very ill." Father Beaumont, already mildly celebrated for his use of jazz during sacred services (TIME, April 1, 1957), explained: "Terry Dene represents the sort of thing I want to bring into my church...
...with fear" when she was first taken to the Mariinsky school when she was 9. Her father, Galina recalls, had wanted a boy, and since there were no other children in the family, she went with him on hunting and fishing trips, wore her hair cropped and "learned to use hammer and saw as well as any handyman...