Word: farther
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the Reds' anger spilled over. U.S. First Secretary James W. Pratt was summoned to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, presented with a note full of familiar trumped-up charges of U.S. espionage and subversion, told that henceforth the 32 Americans attached to the legation could not travel farther than 25 miles from Budapest without giving 48 hours' advance notice. In retaliation, the U.S. imposed similar restrictions on Hungarian diplomats in Washington and New York...
When Heimweh first appeared, a Munich disk jockey labeled it the "most horrible Schnulze [sentimental trash] of the year" and broke the record over his microphone. But the song caught on quickly, largely because many other German singers working the Wanderlust beat have never been farther from home than the casino at Travemünde. Freddy managed to sing as if he really knew what it meant to be a lonely traveler...
...have become reconciled to the fact that consulting jobs keep many valuable men and women at the university, while they otherwise might be tempted into industry. M.I.T.. which stars in both pure and applied research (Dr. Bush developed the first electronic computers there in the 1930s), goes even farther: it feels a responsibility to pioneer techniques for industry. "We get a thing dry behind the ears and wean it." says M.I.T.'s Dean Brown. "Weaning means kicking it off the campus...
...after hearing the two soldiers' complaints, dismissed his No. 2 man and appointed both Shennan and Moheiddin to places on the ruling Supreme Military Council. They did good jobs: Moheiddin as Minister of Communications; taut, lithe, Eager Beaver Shennan as Minister of Local Government. But their ambitions went farther...
...peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source of income for the "Shebeen Queens" who make it. Last week, when the Durban city council started transferring the people of Cato Manor to a new apartheid village farther away from town, the police moved in to smash the stills before the women could take them along...