Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached out and patted Gronchi on the sleeve, said he felt that the welcome had been very warm, expressed understanding about the bad weather. And in the splendid patina of the Quirinale, the party's spirits picked up. That afternoon Ike found time for a nap. His son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara explored the sprawling, centuries-old palace ("This is living," said Major John). That evening, after a talk with Gronchi, Ike walked from his quarters in the Quirinale to another apartment to be guest of honor at a glittering state banquet for 70. Next came...
...Inquiry to recommend a strike settlement. If the Government would take that unprecedented step (not provided for under Taft-Hartley), McDonald pledged vaguely, the steelworkers would bargain "within the framework of the board's recommendations." U.S. Steel Corp.'s R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for eleven major steel companies, promptly blasted McDonald's suggestion as "just one more attempt" by union leaders "to avoid their own great responsibilities by seeking to have a settlement decreed by Government action." So obstinately opposed were the parties to the dispute that Chief U.S. Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan, without hope...
...Legion, which itself is interracial, pushed the question to a floor vote at the last convention (TIME, Sept. 7), but the integrationists lost. Authorized by his executive committee to the necessary steps, the Legion's new National Commander, Martin McKneally, Newburgh (N.Y.) lawyer and World War II Army major, last week did just that. He ousted the 40 & 8, forbade it to use the American Legion name, emblem or any other Legion connection...
...long and 197 ft. high, it backed the Reyran River into a lake six miles long and two miles wide. Only 22½ ft. thick at its base and 5 ft. at the top, the Malpasset was, French technicians boasted on its completion, the world's thinnest major dam. It was to prove an unhappy boast...
...voters that in meditating he "became humble and made new resolutions to become a good man." His Cleans would "behave like good politicians to merit admission to the higher abode of nirvana," and he promised if elected to make Buddhism the "state religion." Last week the Cleans won municipal majorities in eleven major Burmese cities, and in Mandalay, Burma's second largest city, U Nu's forces cleaned out the Stables with a vengeance. U Nu candidates, expecting to win 20 seats in the municipal corporation, swept all 35 seats. Though the elections were local ones, all signs...