Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have a Rug. As he spoke, Adams' cheery color, recently heightened by a brief New England fishing trip, slowly paled. His voice clipped on. "Early in the year 1954, Mr. Goldfine came to visit us, and he said to me, 'You ought to have a rug on that floor which is less shabby than the one that you have, and I would like to send you one. I'd like to get you one.' I said to him, 'I have no use for a rug of this size.' It is a rather large room...
...Asia, who live in the faith that the heart of this great American nation has for them a soft spot." The speaker before a joint session of Congress was the Philippines' cheerful, articulate President Carlos Garcia, and as he moved through Washington last week on an official state visit, he soon found that U.S. officials indeed had for him a soft spot...
...keen to move in, but it was a last resort that neither Lebanon nor its friends could overlook last week. If Lebanon's pro-West regime were to fall, the whole U.S. position in the Middle East would be jeopardized. Last week Secretary Dulles paid a rare visit to the Pentagon to discuss ways and means of moving U.S. forces into Lebanon if requested. Later he told his press conference that there were "other contingencies" for U.S. action in the Lebanese crisis than through...
...Sixth Fleet, with 3,000 combat equipped Marines aboard, canceled an Istanbul visit to remain at sea in the Eastern Mediterranean; the British increased their troop strength in Cyprus to 37,000, considerably more than was needed for quelling Nicosia rioters. The Soviet press, denouncing "imperialist war plans against Lebanon," hinted at sending Russian "volunteers" to help the rebels. Amid these rumblings, Peacemaker Dag Hammarskjold flew on to Cairo this week to explain the advantages of the thin line he had drawn across the Lebanese side of Nasser's Syrian frontier...
...choosing furniture, the American woman "must do credit to her husband's taste in 'wife choosing.' She is proving herself in a completely visible way, and she finds the idea frightening." Concludes Kroehler: "The American consumer approaches the purchase of furniture much as she approaches a visit to the dentist. She must go sooner or later and will probably feel better afterward, but it is such an agonizing experience that maybe it could be put off for a few weeks, a month or even a year...