Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The relationships are shot through with paradox. Members may declare a republic or elect a king of their own (as in Malaya). Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France. Without consulting other members, Commonwealth nations may go to blows with outsiders (Britain v. Egypt...
No Charge? Perhaps Nikita Khrushchev had never wanted summit talks enough to pay any substantial price for them. But however badly he wanted them, the Western performance last week was likely to encourage him in the belief that he need not pay much of anything at all. Skillfully as they...
¶Of the Protestants, only 31% (as against 74% of the Catholics) believed in immortality. Only 45% regard Jesus Christ as "divine"; 40% consider him "only as a very great prophet or teacher."
She collects rubber bands, bubble gum, matchboxes, unmatched gloves, old typewriter ribbons and dull pencils. She is prone to the sulks, unwinds by tossing dishes at her husband, and coddles a breakfast taste for hot fudge sundaes. All this, burbling forth from a lithe, long-legged, freckled, near-perfect frame...
¶ Join Western Europe's OEEC and consider carefully whether to join the Common Market, too.