Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill's recent proposal for top-level talks between the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union before a hydrogen-bomb race begins, has tended to obscure his general agreement with the "tough" foreign policy followed by Mr. Bevin and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The proposal was surprising, since the Russians have continually labelled Mr. Churchill as a "warmonger." Mr. Bevin has called the whole idea campaign "stunt...
...long-suffering moviegoers glowed vindictively: the managers of the city's neighborhood moviehouses were at last writhing under the official knout. Five first-string reporters from Evening Moscow made a swooping inspection of the theaters, pronounced them dirty, cold, ill-operated and "on a very low cultural level...
...conference had a forbidding title: the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. But to Denver's Kenneth Oberholtzer and to the other top-level U.S. public schoolmen he represented, the long-winded words meant simply that the professionals were getting together again to talk about the gristle of their jobs. By & large, they were the men & women who were making U.S. public education policy A.D. 1950-with the advice & consent of the U.S. public when they could get it, without it when the public refused to be interested in the problem of education...
Only 250 Britons now have incomes of more than $14,000 a year after taxes,* Food Minister John Strachey triumphantly told a political rally in Scotland. Before the war, said he, no less than 11,000 topped the $14,000 level. Said the Wall Street Journal: "Mr. Strachey boasts that the door is quietly shutting on the free economy in the cradle of freedom...
Dear Wife is played largely on the comic level of such crude gags as the eye that blackens right after the punch. One bright spot: Radio Announcer Harry von Zell trying desperately to get a cheery broadcast out of a family breakfast table where no one is speaking. Holden and Joan Caulfield are likable enough, and Mona is all too convincingly irritating. Comedian Billy De Wolfe deserves to work on television, where he could be turned off at will...