Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nazi, the Shah was using the word "Aryan" in its true ethnic sense, i.e., to refer to the Indo-Iranian peoples who 4,000 years ago occupied the Persian plateau and conquered most of India...
...political leader. "If the initiative for turning over the government really did come from Nu, he must be rated a statesman," said one observer in Rangoon. "If not, he would still rate as a diplomatist for succeeding in keeping the word 'coup' out of announcements of this week's events...
Reason for this week's flurry of activity was that Dr. Jordan, who will be 74 on Oct. 20, is retiring-not to a life of idleness, but to begin a new career as a medical writer. Many patients wanted a last, reassuring word. For her part, Dr. Jordan was shuffling case histories, making certain that her patients would go on getting the same care...
...deaths by the same week last year. Well over half (279) of the victims were Negroes, mainly children under 15, centered in the city's low-income Negro sections. This week they could plead neither ignorance nor poverty. Polio was suddenly Detroit's best-publicized word, and alarmed officials began a four-week program of mass inoculations at $1 per shot, or no cost at all if a patient cannot afford...
Saltonstall explained Republican foreign policy as "a working out of the principles of resisting armed aggression, and keeping our word to friendly nations." On Taiwan, he explained, the Administration must cope with "Chiang's stubborn determination" to return to the mainland and the fact that "we have already recognized one government of China, and cannot recognize another...