Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...like Consul General Angus Ward-are apt to find themselves whipping posts and not listening posts. How can businessmen or missionaries have any security there? ¶As Mao's visit to Moscow indicates, he has shown no sign of wavering from the international Communist line. If he does set out to become a Tito, recognition can just as well wait until that happy day. ¶To recognize Mao would be to abandon America's friends in China-not only the Nationalist government, but all anti-Communist elements...
...reading and to learning to talk which he now does, blurrily but intelligibly, in three languages. The elder of the late King Alfonso's two living sons, he gave up his rights to the Spanish throne 16 years ago in favor of his healthy younger brother Juan, and set off in pursuit of the happiness that has traditionally eluded his hemophilic Bourbon family...
...fire, which the Nazis set before they moved out, the cathedral's heavy larch roof and its covering of multicolored tiles collapsed into the nave. Since then, Viennese have donated 15 million schillings (about $570,000) to restore the cathedral, but St. Stephen's still needs 250,000 tiles to complete its new roof; by last week the church had money enough for only 40,000. In a tiny hut in St. Stephen's Square, donors could buy one tile for five schillings (about 19? and Theodor Cardinal Innitzer pleaded with Viennese to help clothe their "oldest...
Ever since the Allied Council for Japan was set up at war's end, the Russian members have battled doggedly with U.S. representatives over everything from land reform to schoolbook censorship. But from the start they appeared more or less resigned to U.S. predominance in Japanese affairs, and the council was spared the almost daily Russian flare-ups and walkouts of the now comatose Allied Control Council in Berlin. One day last week the Russian tactics changed: burly Lieut...
...Ernest Manning's blending of religion and politics had its beginning one Sunday afternoon 23 years ago. He was a Saskatchewan farm boy when he first heard a broadcast from Calgary by William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, radio evangelist. Two years later, after listening to Aberhart every Sunday, he set out for Calgary to enroll as a student at Aberhart's Prophetic Bible Institute...