Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROME--Antonio Segni, veteran Christian Democrat middle-roader, formed a one-party minority government Sunday that leaned a little to the right...
...candidate who shows sufficient interest in the early stages of the competitions, to pass necessary tests on from is assigned a tutor--a veteran editor who assists with analysis of work compiled and guides the prospect through his competition. Each board appoints a chairman to oversee the work of the tutor, confer regularly with candidates on their progress, and pass judgement at intervals...
...stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran captain, P. L. Rasmussen, 58, declared: "This ship means a revolution in Arctic navigation." Boasted a government official: "Now we can sail to Greenland all year round...
After a first look at the new Paris styles, a veteran U.S. fashion specialist made his critique: "Hooray, they've finally put things-principally the bosom-back where they belong." That they had. At the annual spring fashion showings in Paris last week, the big news from dressmakers was the "return to normalcy...
...overstuffed parlor of early 19th century optimism, Poe played Hamlet to his own ghost, and it is sometimes difficult to separate the poet from the poltergeist who tipped over the stuffed birds, broke the bric-a-brac and put the ladies into a flutter. It is the thesis of Veteran Biographer Frances Winwar (Coleridge, the Wordsworths, Byron, Shelley, Keats) that Poe's "ghoul-haunted" imagination has contemporary validity. For all its outmoded idiom (castles, princesses, etc.) Poe's death-obsessed verse speaks true today. In this admirable biography, Author Winwar lets a hundred well-informed witnesses speak...