Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most famous reversal occurred in 1921 when a small, ivyless team known as the "Praying Colonels' from Danville, Kentucky, made its second visit to the Stadium. The varsity eleven that year had already polished off two other minor oponents in a single afternoon. It had beaten B.U., 10 to 0, and Middlebury, 16 to 0, by splitting its squad in half for the season's openers. And it had, if fact, defeated these same "Colonels" from Centre College by two touchdowns during the previous season. But that day the tiny team from Kentucky ended a Crimson winning streak...
...leader of the world's second biggest nation (350 million), Nehru would call on Mao Tse-tung, the leader of the world's largest (600 million). With Russia, the third largest (210 million), they comprised nearly half of mankind. The significance was not lost on Nehru. His visit was a "world event in a historic sense," said he grandly, "one of the biggest events of the year and of the decade. All other things are trivial...
...days before Chiang made his statement, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson returned to Washington from a flying visit with him. Reports had circulated that Robertson's mission was made to halt Nationalist air attacks on the Red China coast. These reports, said Robertson, were wrong...
...Dear Comrade," wrote Jawaharlal Nehru to each member of his Cabinet. "On the eve of my visit to China, I venture to write to you to dispel doubts and rumors." In 1,300 loosely strung words, the leader of the world's second most populous nation proclaimed that he would not run for re-election as Congress Party president when his term expires next January and would not "function as Prime Minister for at least some time." Instead, said handsomely aging (64) Nehru, he wanted time to read and think while others showed how they could run India...
...idea for this study originated in a recent discussion of the Overseers Committee to Visit the Department of Fine Arts and Fogg Museum...