Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Communist threats underlined the choice facing the Brussels conference: it could either back down and leave Europe defenseless, or it could act swiftly before the Communists translated threats into action. The conference seemed determined to act. At the end of the first day, the conferees announced plans to form a 1,000,000-man force by the end of 1953, including 55 to 60 divisions under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (formally appointed this week...
...time has come," said the New York State Board of Regents last week, "when we as a nation must request some form of universal national service from all our young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...
Landon helped form the "Haydn Society of the United States" when he was just out of college in 1946. The society managed to get some special programs of Haydn's music performed on a Boston radio station, but not much more. In 1949, Landon formed the "Haydn Society Inc.," and really started to roll...
...Olive Anne Mellor, a good-looking, 22-year-old Kansas farm girl, took a job as secretary to Planemaker Walter Beech, who had a precarious foothold in the aircraft business. Olive was quickly promoted to receptionist, bill collector and paymaster. In 1930 she married the boss. She helped him form Beech Aircraft and helped nurse their plane-manufacturing company along. Thus, when Walter Beech died last month, there was no trouble finding someone to fill his job. Last week O. A. Beech was elected president and chief executive officer of Beech Aircraft Corp...
...will be a rogue!" cried Lucien Leuwen. No one was alarmed. It was a commonplace among French liberals in the 1830s, and especially among very young liberals, for disappointments in love to take this form. Lucien's heart had in fact been thoroughly shattered in Book One of a Stendhal novel, and now in Book Two the young man was determined to live without a heart. His father, a banker, was delighted, and chevied the boy into politics...