Word: arched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salt-and-pepper suit and bright green tie, General Nguyen Van Hinh, head of the Vietnamese army, flew to Paris to interview his chief of state, Bao Dai. The 39-year-old general was loudly confident that he could undermine his arch rival, the Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, whose efforts he had been successfully frustrating back home...
...because he was eating as though the Labor Government had just been elected unanimously." It is not really surprising that the mogul's style of eating (he was putting jam on toast) lacked the particular characterization called for. What is worse, all of Mankiewicz's witticisms are given such arch delivery that one expects Jack Webb's orchestra to underline each one with...
...brother Hermann sauntered through the Iron Curtain countries like welcome guests. Whittaker Chambers said Noel was a friend of Alger Hiss and a Communist agent; the Communists said he worked for the U.S. "imperialists." His sister said Noel and his whole family were just "Quaker-Liberals" who were "arch-individualists...
Last week Noel and Herta Field popped back into sight as the Hungarian government announced their release from political prison. The Fields' reaction was typically "arch-individualistic"-instead of dashing for freedom, they elected to repair to a Hungarian hospital and hole up, incommunicado. Hermann, released with apologies three weeks earlier by Poland with the admission that it had all been a terrible mistake, flew to Zurich, where CIA agents slapped a cloak of security around him and hustled him off to a secret reunion with his wife. No one could yet be sure whether the Fields, individually...
...President Wilson, at least, any final adjustment will be second best to one he proposed half a century ago. Wore he alive today, the great Princeton educator undoubtedly would have said. "I told you so."In the afternoon on the campus historle Blair Arch frames Locknart Hall...