Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talking with 72-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh had already become one of the more futile exercises in modern diplomacy. By last weekend it was increasingly clear that the McGhee talks were no exception. As they ended, Mossadegh still held steadfastly to his old position, the West still held the bag. The Iranian Prime Minister would not let British technicians manage Iran's oil industry; he also asked a wholesale price for his country's oil that both Britain and the U.S. considered too high...
...Brigadier Geoffrey Walsh, the 27th's commander, smilingly looked on, men tackled each other in schoolboy fashion. Some, already embarked, dashed down for a second round of goodbyes with wives & children. Above the din of shouts and whistles, a group of French Canadians rousingly sang their regimental song, bag pipes skirled Tipperary, and a brass band blared Mad'moiselle from Armenti...
...labeled "Clark." Under it piled the blizzard of communications to the White House about Harry Truman's nomination of General Mark Clark as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.* By week's end 21,000 letters and telegrams had arrived, the biggest and most clamorous bag of mail delivered to the White House on any issue in recent years, except the firing of Douglas MacArthur. Score: 6 to 1 against the Clark nomination...
Results of the annual diplomatic pheasant shoot on the summer estate of French President Vincent Auriol were posted again in Rambouillet. Winner: U.S. Ambassador David K. Bruce, with 70 birds. The host's bag: 41 birds...
...gone on through the loneliness of suffering, through the conviction that she was a "bitch and a fake," to find that she not only believed in God but loved Him-even more than she loved her lover. "I believe there's a God-I believe the whole bag of tricks; there's nothing I don't believe, they could subdivide the Trinity into a dozen parts and I'd believe. They could dig up records that proved Christ had been invented by Pilate to get himself promoted and I'd believe just the same...