Word: openness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...parade followed Senator Lucas to the Havana high-school gymnasium where everybody but the four horses crowded in to hear the home-town boy open his campaign. Actually, Lucas was getting a late start: his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, had been running for months. Dirksen, onetime isolationist, had seemingly abandoned his position during his term in the House, but this winter he was talking isolation again and his stand had re-won him the favor of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick. Launching his campaign last fall; Dirksen pitched his battle on the field of foreign...
Since 1945, he has run what he calls a Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy. The committee's aim: to get the U.S. out of China and leave that nation wide-open to the great revolution of the proletariat. A year ago, in the Marxist magazine Political Affairs, Field crowed over the strategy's success. "It is our task as American Communists," he proclaimed, "to help mobilize the forces of labor and all anti-imperialists to deal such further blows at Wall Street that the Chinese New Democracy may . . . move firmly...
...central Java. Soekarno, whom most Indonesians regard as the personification of independence, had been driven from Jakarta by the Dutch almost exactly four years ago. A roar of welcome ascended as the planes reached the runway. President Soekarno, wearing a white uniform and black Moslem hat, climbed into an open Packard convertible and headed into the city. Behind him, over a distance of four miles, tumultuously happy crowds boiled and swirled like the wake of an ocean liner...
...Angeles Open Golf Tourney (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Reported by Bill Stern...
...Bestseller. Concentrating on 570 of the most common words, Lorge found that the simplest ones usually have the largest number of meanings. A word like open, for instance, can mean uncovered (open boat), not closed (open door), unrestricted (open to use), forthright (open in manner), or not frozen (open soil). Even little by has 41 meanings...