Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceiling poker game in which each feels obliged to arm itself not only against its opponents' existing weapons but also against every Flash Gordon device that the opposition might conceivably develop. Every nation is thus alarmed by the ballooning of arms costs. Harold Macmillan, returning last winter from Moscow, found arms budgets the chief subject on Khrushchev's mind...
...entire press at the same time-a procedure that protects out-of-town newspapers against premature release of fashion stories by papers in New York, where the big fashion shows are held. Every summer the group conducts a "press week," with showings of the next fall and winter fashions; again, in the winter, the styles for the following spring and summer are trotted out. It is against the rules for anyone to preview the fashions before the press-week release dates...
...winter snow began drifting down on the Chinese troops camped arrogantly on the bleak slopes of Indian Kashmir, all India suddenly became aware that Red China was not simply guilty of "overenthusiastic pursuit of Tibetan refugees" (as one Indian official had first surmised), but was embarked on a systematic quarrel with India, and not particularly keen for negotiation. The prospect loomed that Red China wanted a test of strength with its No. 1 rival in Asia...
...conversion of Russia. "We must make it so that the last of the old ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes for winter, then-radio, electricity, books, movies. Against this, Mister God can't hold out long...
FRESH ORANGE PRICES will be lower this winter because of expected 3% increase in the total U.S. crop and hea.vy carryover of frozen juice from last year. Grapefruit prices and production are expected to be about the same...