Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva* this week on the Middle East, to include himself, President Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Dag Hammarskjold. Surprisingly missing from his invitation list: Mao and Nasser. Every word in the Soviet strong man's message, which bore the sound of his own bluff rhetoric rather than Foreign Ministry jargon, conveyed a sense of urgency: "The guns are already beginning to shoot . . . this awesome moment in history . . . We propose meeting any day and any time-and the sooner the better . . . The world is on the brink of catastrophe...
...headed by Brigadier General Kassem as Premier and including four other generals. That the plot had been carefully arranged was obvious: within hours of the first move, the rebels announced the civilian officials in a new government, declared martial law, purged loyal army commanders and renamed military units which bore royal titles...
Undaunted by explosive revelations of the McClellan committee investigations, unscathed by three recent court trials and small-bore insurgency in his organization, unabashed by proven connections with gangsters both in and out of his heavily muscled union, Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa bounced confidently into Washington last week and, with one single stroke of his fist, made the whole U.S. labor movement sit up and take notice...
Retreating to New York City, the general bore his last years of genteel poverty lightly. Natty and erect to the day of his death in 1899, the aging Milton Littlefield invariably wore a flower in his lapel. It was the only thing anyone ever pinned on the prince of carpetbaggers...
During Dag Hammarskjold's swift peacemaking mission to the Middle East last week, somebody in Beirut, who knew he was coming, baked him a cake. Presented at the presidential palace, the cake bore these words: "United Nations Save Lebanon." Commented the world's No. 1 international civil servant: "Only the Lebanese can save Lebanon...