Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, who continued to visit or pen a note to the hospital every couple of days, tried again to squelch the chatter about retiring Dulles. To G.O.P. congressional leaders, meeting at the White House, he passed the word in firm tones: "It is my responsibility." In press conference he praised Senators who (unlike Symington and Humphrey) "have expressed very prayerfully their great hope that he will be spared to go on with his work." By week's end Eisenhower's plain words had wiped out any excuses for confusion: Dulles would not retire unless he declared himself physically...
...another in the voting. Will the party stand solidly behind me?" Ja, rasped the old Chancellor, you can count on full support. Helplessly aware that he might be setting himself up for the beating of his life, Erhard accepted "in principle"-so long as he would have a word to say in naming his successor at the Economics Ministry...
Almost as a side thought, Nikita Khrushchev interrupted his word war for Berlin to threaten the Shah of Iran for "insulting" the Soviet Union. The effect was no side issue in Teheran. In a misconceived maneuver during negotiations for Iran's new bilateral agreement with the U.S., the Shah had invited his Soviet neighbors to make him a counteroffer-and then sent them away emptyhanded. "Iran treated us as if we were Luxembourg," huffed Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Pegov. Khrushchev centered all his abuse on the Shah and the Shah alone. "He fears not us but his own people," roared...
...this 22-word prayer an encroachment on the right to religious freedom? Recited in unison by schoolchildren, the prayer begins each school day in the suburban Long Island school district of Herricks. Last week five property owners in the district brought suit in the New York State Supreme Court to end the practice, waited for a ruling later this month...
...years, the Seattle Times' s Prize Cross word contest has pulled 19,845,000 entries, has paid off fewer than 200 winners. Circulation gain, not necessarily attributable to the contest: 10,000. *Another kind of fix has plagued the Pionc.fr Press. A few years ago some winning contest entries came from two postal clerks who. working independently of each other, waited until solutions were printed, then submitted entries with phony, before-the-deadline postmarks...