Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chain of events that led to the reversal began when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles received an urgent message from Mendes-France: Please come to Geneva for a clarifying talk about Franco-American differences. Dulles flatly refused. To come to Geneva only to "walk out" again after his conversations, he felt, would damage the already weakened French position and provide grist for the Red propagandists. But Mendes is a persistent man; he countered with a second invitation: Why not meet him in Paris? After 45 minutes of mulling it over with President Eisenhower. Dulles accepted, left that same evening...
...explosion's chain reaction reached 25 of the plant's 57 sheds and shacks, and all eight of the big wooden buildings. Packets of firecrackers shot aloft and burst in the air. As Kent's 300 workers, three-quarters of them women, ran for their lives, many of them crashed into the encircling wire fence. Some rebounded toward the single open gate; others climbed over; still others, with terror's unnatural strength, uprooted the fence and crawled under. Worker Mildred Reed dashed from the fiery plant with an armload of detonators, was knocked down ten times...
...longer they waited, the more sullen they grew, and the more receptive they became to the fanaticism of the Moslem Brotherhood and the rabblerousing of Communist agitators. Firebrands among them killed Jordan's King Abdullah (for compromising with Israel), overthrew governments and raided into Israel, setting off a chain of attacks and reprisals that led straight to the massacres at Kibya and Scorpion's Pass...
...established granfinos (high society) have a finely developed sense of rivalry. When one contributor donates a painting, Chato scurries around to the others to help them make sure they are not being outdone. He places donors' names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain. Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli is the donor of a Goya, a Manet, two Renoirs, a Rodin bronze, two Toulouse-Lautrecs, a Degas and a Ceézanne; the Jafet family (iron) has come through with a Tintoretto, a Renoir and a Gobelin tapestry; Bank President (and former Ambassador...
...months ago, editors of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain gave New York World-Telegram and Sun Staff Writer Frederick Woltman a tough assignment: get busy and appraise the works of Senator Joe McCarthy. Freddy Woltman, 49, was just the man for the job. Long acknowledged the No. 1 newspaper specialist on Reds, he has been exposing Communists since 1938, and, unlike many other anti-Communist writers, he was never a Communist himself. A hard-digging reporter, he backed his stories with solid documentation-e.g., he exposed Gerhart Eisler as the top Kremlin agent in the U.S. the day before...