Word: wente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outright, plus forgiveness of a mortgage held by her father. Dulles' three sisters are each to get $10,000; William C. Pierce and Henry N. Ess III, his law partners in the Manhattan firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, will get $25,000 each. To his second son, Avery Dulles, went only $5,000, "not because of any lack of affection for him, but because of special circumstances." The circumstances: as a member of the Jesuit order, the Rev. Avery Dulles is bound by a vow of poverty...
Bombs & Stumps. Kistiakowsky's biggest job came in 1944, when he went to Los Alamos as a key man on the Manhattan Project. His assignment was to provide the explosive power for triggering the first atomic bomb, assemble the bomb so that it would go off. On the eve of the first test at Alamogordo, Kistiakowsky, another scientist and a military police officer with a submachine gun guarded the bomb throughout the night...
From the Republican viewpoint, fanners went from bad to worse...
...force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over my prostrate form." Confident that his ability to sway sentiment was as great as ever, Faubus went off on a fishing trip. And last week, while he was gone. Little Rock went to the polls, ousted all three segregationists by margins of 1,500 to 2,500 votes out of 26,000 cast, kept the three moderates in office...
Even the European Coal & Steel Community, long the shining practical example of a European readiness to surrender some sovereignty, has come upon hard times. For its first six years, its member nations (France, Germany, Italy and Benelux) went along cheerfully with its expansionist schemes to abolish coal and steel tariffs and to outlaw cartels. But in the past six months, slackening European demand for coal, plus U.S. competition, has stacked up 30 million tons of unsold coal (TIME, March 2 et seq.). Fortnight ago, when the High Authority of the community ordered its members to restrict the production and import...