Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By day he flew only 100 ft. over the Atlantic, at night he climbed to 500 ft. He made hourly radio position reports, saw no other planes or ships, never got sleepy enough to use his stay-awake pills. After 28 hours, he sighted Trinidad off Venezuela, turned up the...
To Bang-Jensen (pronounced bong-yensen), longtime counselor at the Danish legation in Washington before he joined the U.N. staff in 1949, the burning of the papers was a victory for honor and principle. Inside the envelopes were the names of 81 Hungarian refugees who, at hearings of a U.N...
Since Khrushchev met Eisenhower at the President's retreat in the Maryland hills, Soviet propagandists have been making great play with what they call "the spirit of Camp David," a 1959 model to replace the spirit of Geneva and the Bandung spirit. The formula is simple: appropriate a place...
John Stuart Mill, in his essay On Liberty, considered eccentricity in a nation's character to be "proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained." Britain has always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his...
These are isolated feats. The real craze at the moment is hiking against the clock. The fad started a month ago when Royal Marine Pete ("Hopalong") Dagnan, 24, set out to challenge the record of 104 miles paced off in 40½ hr. by a U.S. marine. Hopalong, in service...