Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential yacht Williamsburg would soon sail for Key West, and Truman expects to follow by air on Nov. 8. It will be the President's first real vacation in almost eight months, and, if he sticks to the present plan for a five-week stay, the longest since he took office...
Since color sets use the same materials as black & white sets, which are not affected by the order, Washington observers found it hard to follow Mobilizer Wilson's reasoning. A later announcement seemed to make it clear that the order was aimed at men rather than metals. This week in Washington, Wilson will meet the nation's TV manufacturers and urge them to abandon temporarily all color experimentation in order to free their best electronic engineers for "important military projects...
Long and lean, a single white spire fights its way through the trees in Hanover. New Hampshire, to tell the world that a college shivers beneath it. Visitors descending from the rim of hills need only follow this barren beacon to find the cloisters that are Dartmouth, and once there, to help them understand the uniqueness of the country's loneliest college...
...easy to understand. After setting every line in place in one of the most carefully structured plays on the modern stage, it was too much to expect that the author might try to create an essentially different work of art in the new medium. Instead the dialogue and plot follow the play almost exactly, and nearly all action is within the confines of the stage set, Kowalski's flat in the French Quarter of New Orleans...
...uses terrifying intimidation to get a confession from him. Rubashov was one of the hundreds of old Bolsheviks whose deviation from the Stalinist "means justifies the end" philosophy meant certain death. His final hours are occupied by a challenge--he must decide between a silent, unobserved death, which would follow a confession for many crimes he did not commit, or death after a trial where he could speak out heroically against the new Bolshevism. He chose the former. Thus, Rubashov's death was a great tragedy, since it resulted from moral and intellectual capitulation...