Word: bypass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Front. Despite the S.O.B.'s best disruptive efforts, the Korean crisis has brought a new sense of purpose to most of U.N.'s 3,200 staffers- except the 300 to 400 Communists and fellow travelers who are apt to skulk in corners (Western delegations try to bypass them to get necessary work done...
...Italy last week, sport fans roared of an affront to national dignity. In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry tendered its regrets to the Italian embassy. At week's end, the French Tour director announced a slight detour: the last half of the race will bypass Italy...
...humbler levels, too, British ingenuity still finds a way to defy or bypass the government. A woman who was determined to found the first diaper laundry and supply service in England (The Rockabye Nappy Service at Enfield, Middlesex) could not buy diapers in quantity in England because the mills were then subsidized to make other kinds of cheap piece goods ... So she went shopping in the guise of an expectant mother . . . When clerks asked for her "green card" (a mother's special ration book), she just looked more pregnant. Anyway, despite all the government could...
...from the Western Defense Ministers' conference at The Hague, came a sensational story: U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson had told British Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell (who is Strachey's boss and who formerly hewed pretty closely to the Communist Party line) that the U.S. intends to bypass Strachey with any really important military information that it may furnish Britain. Both Johnson and Shinwell denied the story: newsmen nevertheless were sure that it was at least partly true...
Others were working towards much the same goal by somewhat different paths: ex-marine Cord Meyer Jr., whose United World Federalists was designed to transform the U.N. itself into a world government; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, who urged the "faithful members" of U.N. to bypass the Soviet veto and go on about their pressing business; Ely Culbertson, high priest of contract bridge, who wanted an international land, sea and air force (drawn principally from small nations) to prevent aggression...