Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific, was rated a nuclear bull's eye by hitting within five miles of its target. The Vandenberg shot pointed up the fact that both Thor and military launching crews are well on their way to full operational status and readiness to fire within minutes after the word is passed...
...Control of the Ruble." But the real burden of Khrushchev's 38,000-word message is that Soviet collective farmers must improve their efficiency if the new plan is to be fulfilled. Khrushchev's touring experts had been shocked during their 1955 visit to Iowa to see what huge crop yields a relatively small number of U.S. farmers could obtain. In farm productivity, said Khrushchev, "our country is still seriously lagging behind the U.S." He cited some revealing figures of the number of man-hours required in the two countries to grow 220 lbs. of produce...
...stepping down as chairman of the People's Republic of China was confided by the Foreign Ministry to trusted outside diplomats (not invited: the British, the Dutch, the Yugoslavs) after Nationalist China-which says it has an agent inside the party councils-first spread the word. A week passed before China's 650 million-people were told the news...
...Made a vigorous attack against anti-Catholic activities in China, and in his speech used the rare and uncompromising word schism ("it seems almost to burn our lips") to brand the activities of those collaborating bishops who are consecrating new bishops at the behest of the Communist government. Said Pope John: "If these, our afflicted children, are forced to undergo trials, tribulations and cruel hardships ... let them remember and meditate that such is the price of our invincible Christian faith...
...attendance of about 60. But the 220 seats in Fitkin Amphitheater at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital were nothing like enough: eager auditors overflowed onto the floor and sat literally at the speaker's feet; standees jammed the back of the hall, an anteroom and stairways. The word they had come to hear was entitled "Contributions of Existential Psychoanalysis." The speaker: Manhattan's Psychoanalyst Rollo May. His audience included, besides the association's hard core of psychiatrists, many members of Yale's faculties of psychiatry, psychology, philosophy and divinity, and enough students to make...