Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate of 10,000 copies a week. To back up its brilliant come-on title, the book offers would-be spare-time millionaires a sophisticated circus barker's spiel plus evangelistic free-enterprise fervor, shovelfuls of down-to-earth business details plus the bargaining excitement of a Turkish bazaar, a fictional cast of heroes, villains and gulls-and even a bit of suspense. If a million dollars is not forthcoming in the author's promised 20-year span, one has the publisher's semi-facetious word for it that the price of the book will be refunded...
...Clash of Wills." Under Nehru's leadership, neighboring India has desperately tried to stay aloof from Tibet's agony. Nehru recently sought to expel a British missionary correspondent for passing on "bazaar rumors" of trouble; what is going on in Tibet, said Nehru, is "a clash of wills, not arms." But the fact of actual battle sent a shudder of passion through the subcontinent. Indian newspapers called for action, and the Indian Express asked angrily: "If New Delhi could rightly condemn the Anglo-French aggression on Egypt, thereby castigating a fellow member of the Commonwealth, what prevents...
...jaunt with Grandmother through an exotic bazaar in Beersheba, Israel, pert, 16-year-old Nina Roosevelt* spied the cutest souvenir ever, begged Grandma to bargain for it with the canny Bedouins. Obligingly, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt shelled out $77 for a scrawny baby camel (named "Duchess" by Nina), which, if Daddy approves, will stalk the Roosevelts' Hyde Park estate until it gets big enough to deserve permanent residence in any interested...
...Smouha's solicitors were pressing a market-value claim of $30 million. Britain faced the prospect of having to pay for Nasser's single biggest expropriation of British landholdings out of its own resources. "Hoodwinked in a deal that had all the elements of the Middle East bazaar business," gasped London's News Chronicle...
...itself, such a proposal is far short of what Konrad Adenauer describes as an "undeclinable offer." But in the bazaar haggling of the cold war, it might be a first price to indicate a willingness to bargain. The direction that such bargaining would take is already fairly clear. In recent weeks both Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka have emphasized that the only way Germany can be reunified is as a "confederation...