Word: val
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrow the overwhelmingly abstract field, the three-man jury, composed of the directors of the national museums of France and Belgium and Yugoslav Painter Marko Celebonovic, studied and argued for a heated five hours. Then the jury announced the winner: Ben Nicholson's August 1956-Val d'Orcia...
...daily with Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, who briefed him on the nationwide Operation Alert. When the warning blasts sounded on Friday morning, Ike met with an "expanded" National Security Council, but later stuck to his deskwork as 10,000 federal employees and officials scooted out of town to secret emergency headquarters...
Passed from one to another by his expatriate fellow countrymen, Reporter Val Chu, in the U.S. after six years as a member of TIME'S Hong Kong news staff, conducted a month-long survey of the Communist pressures at work on Chinese students in the U.S. His report...
Unfortunately, the screenplay by Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, and Val Valentine is less successful than the actors. It does not matter very much that the plot, which centers loosely around the theft of a racehorse, is hopelessly confused. Many of the comic situations, however, are strained and too farcical to be genuinely funny, and the punch-lines of some of the jokes are left lying around so long that they finally drop out altogether. As a result, the film lacks much of the spontaneity of the Searle originals...
...stream of Army engineers, Public Health Service doctors, nurses and drugs, Agriculture Department food surpluses, GSA and Army cots and blankets, and Labor Department unemployment checks was flowing into the water-logged Northeast. As coordinator of the Government's relief activities, the President named Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson...