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Word: bargainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept. 26--A college newspaper editor did what no other reporter could do, and made himself $200 in the bargain, when he crossed army barricades today and entered Central High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Michigan Reporter Enters School Posing as Little Rock Teenager | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

...sign hanging in front of the Grolier Book Shop is faded--dingy, by some people's standards--and you have to climb five steps to enter the store. For that matter, there aren't any bargain sales, used book tradeins, or neat stacks marked with course titles; most students hunting for textbooks leave the store on Plympton Street in a matter of seconds...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: A Roomful of Books | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

...would be "going over our heads." But it also acknowledged: "Our entry by our own mistakes into the East-West struggle has made us lose the initiative." Added Beirut's French-language L'Orient: "This game can lead to nothing but a general conflagration or to a bargain between East and West. In the first eventuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: A Vague Foreboding | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Overseas Trade Harold Wilson recalls that, in tune with Stalin's nocturnal habits, negotiations with Mikoyan "usually began at 10 or midnight and ended at 4 or even 6 a.m. Once he said: 'You in England have been traders for many centuries. But we know how to bargain, too-I come from a long line of Armenian traders!' ): Another time, when Wilson chaffed, "The trouble with you Russians . . ." Mikoyan broke in: "I am not a Russian. Premier Stalin is not a Russian. You know that I am never free to meet you at 7 p.m. because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Survivor | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Culinary Master. This man who bargained so confidently with the world had almost every day of his life to bargain with Stalin. Yet he talked freely, never seemed worried lest he commit an indiscretion, cracked irreverent jokes. In 1946 a group of leading officials were sitting in Mikoyan's dacha, a crenelated red brick atrocity created by a 19th century czarist sugar baron. Malenkov's wife began grumbling about how poor and scarce Soviet nylons were. Snapped Mikoyan: "Yes, my dear young lady, but we have plenty of portraits of Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Survivor | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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