Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Big Four public meetings at Geneva were certainly getting nowhere. Neither did the first of their private talks, 15,000 feet over the Atlantic. But already everyone was looking for an agreeable way to break off the Geneva talks in a week or two, and the chief interest now centered on a search for an interim agreement committing all Big Four powers to maintain something like the status quo in Berlin. The Russians, who wanted something to show for backing off farther from Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum (which expired uneventfully on the day of Dulles' funeral), were haggling...
Among Communists who played court to the big boss was Red China's touring Defense Minister, who turned up in Tirana. Belgrade further reported that "most" Eastern European satellites had asked and received permission to send planes across Yugoslavia with unspecified passengers for Albania. It could hardly be said that the party big wheels had picked a Communist show place to gather in. But then the Khrushchev party's next stop is Hungary...
Bastard Daughter. Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...
...redeye used to be: "I'm a she-wolf and it's my night to howl." For a while, in the early 20th century, the wolf howls seemed to be drowned out by ragtime and its successors; square dancing was not revived in a big way until the 1930s, when the late Dr. Lloyd Shaw formed a dance school in Colorado Springs, organized the famed Cheyenne Mountain Dancers. Since then, square dancing has grown every year as popular entertainment, with about 10,000 callers now active (the best of them make as much as $150 a night...
...pampered jades of Asia had turned up in Miami Beach last week they might have melted with envy. One of the most pampered trades in the U.S.-the disk jockeys-had come to town 2,500 strong, and Big Daddy, in the shape of U.S. record companies, was there to take care of them. Officially, the jocks were attending the Second International Radio Programing Seminar and Pop Music Disk Jockey Convention. Actually, the convention was attending them...