Word: side
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...issuing hourly revisions of his probable future course, with experts battening down and shoring up exposed positions against the expected assault, Nikita Khrushchev last week headed across the Atlantic toward New York and the U.N. General Assembly. His decision to come to New York by ship had its bright side. For ten whole days Nikita would presumably be reduced to nothing more than a disembodied presence at the other end of a radio circuit...
...grasp his hand, and adulatory crowds joined him in emotional mass renditions of the Marseillaise. But back in Paris sobersided Le Monde sadly warned: "France has no chance of playing the role she legitimately claims in the world as long as this wound of Algeria is open on her side. Frenchmen will not have to wait very much longer to find out if the monarch to whom they confided their destiny at a critical time has really been able to change the course of history or if . . . like so many others, he has only put off the inevitable...
...approved by the Security Council. Its jurisdiction, said Kuznetsov, is clear, under Article 53 of the U.N. Charter, which says, "No enforcement action shall be taken under regional arrangements without authorization of the Security Council." On the surface, the action appeared only to range the U.N. on the side of the angels against Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. But it turned out to be a time bomb loaded with implications. The Soviet resolution, if passed, would...
Atrocities were not all on one side. The camisards terrorized the Catholic countryside. They rushed into battle singing psalms ("When those devils began singing their dreadful songs, we couldn't control our soldiers," complained an officer of the King). Roland kept their morale high by his Robin Hood exploits and hairbreadth escapes. In the end he was caught and executed, and finally the camisards were reduced to a remnant. But their struggle had crystallized public opinion against religious intolerance, and for 45 years (from 1715 to 1760) Calvinist Antoine Court labored to restore French Protestantism -organizing local and national...
...want to limber up the D'Oyly Carte tradition wherever stiff joints masquerade as style; but he is too English and too understanding of G. & S. to want to undermine what they did. The sudden gay way in which he has the crew lift Captain Corcoran off one side of the deck and deposit him on the other admirably indicates the kind of general lift he has given Pinafore...