Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. The Tass account of Zhukov's arrival shrank to three lines in next morning's edition of Pravda...
Furthermore, he has occasional and annoying lapses of complete blindness, especially about Hemingway. He complains that Hemingway's heroes have no pasts, no sense of tradition; quite so, but this rootlessness is their most characteristically American aspect, and helps account for their credibility. O'Faolain does not seem to understand that everyone does not have an Irish sense of ancestry and history...
...wage peace, I think, more effectively on that account...
...Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures about the bones or about additional excavation −the account ends. Archaeologists Toynbee and Perkins conclude only that "at least since the 2nd century, the belief [that St. Peter's bones lay in the Aedicula] has been, and always will be, a wellspring of devotion...
...Manhattan's Geyer Advertising, Inc. Longtime (26 years) topflight Adman Foote, who left McCann-Erickson (TIME, Feb. 18) "to return to the personal practice of advertising," made a "substantial" investment in Geyer, which ranks 38th in ad billing with bookings of $20.5 million. Self-described as "an overgrown account executive and a frustrated copywriter," Foote will get a chance to work both ends of the ad business at Geyer...