Word: mod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cook's activities are space-age. Its Cinefonics division makes documentary films both for Cook and other companies; the Air Mod division reconditions Air Force planes and repairs electronic gear...
...imperturbable Scot" who "watches the signs of the sky most attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante omnia ursam maiorem, quae caelestium choro progeniem blantem nuper immiscuit.") Less vividly, Gaitskell (Mod. Greats, 1927) was hailed as a debater who "does not shirk the task of leadership when the free world is at stake...
Through this damning factual indictment, Hungary's chief delegate, Peter Mod, sat impassively. Nor did he answer when the Uruguayan delegate asked him to explain his own "magic metamorphosis" from last October, when Mod himself led a Revolutionary Committee of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry that had demanded "liberation" and condemned Russia's "unwarranted interference...
...before the London talks recessed until next week and Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen flew home to report fresh progress toward "partial disarmament" providing for a cutback in arms, manpower and defense costs. Three days before Stassen's arrival, Secretary of State Dulles had also moved in to mod erate any undue optimism about the talks that Happy Harold Stassen might generate. The Soviet proposals, Dulles granted at his news conference, marked "a certain measure of progress." But the Administration would make no disarmament moves-which could involve the "very existence of the U.S. itself"-on the basis...
...Cleveland, Ford dealers knocked off up to $1,000 from the highest-priced mod els on a "clean deal," i.e., no trade-in. Plymouths were selling at $450 off list in New York; Oldsmobiles at $1,000 off in Dallas. Manhattan's Max Lasko (Stu runs," debaker) and even allowed $1.000 Cadillacs on were "any car selling that at discounts in Cleveland, Dallas and Miami. As a result, the National Automobile Dealers Association does not believe that dealers can even maintain the low (3%) profit margin on sales that they averaged for the first quarter. Said H. W. Robin...