Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blow. Nikita Khrushchev paid last week for not realizing this. He thought he could play on the Africans' hatred for colonialism as a cloak to take over the Congo and set himself up as the champion of all Africa. When crossed, he turned on the U.N. and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who had thwarted him. As the Baltika neared Manhattan, Khrushchev discovered his error...
...known work, French experts still think it is evidence enough to rank him as one of the finest artists of his time. The time was one that lived in dread of the plague, and Miralhet's Virgin is shown tenderly shielding the city's population with her cloak. For once, there were no rich and no poor in Nice: the compassion of the Virgin fell upon all men alike...
...headquarters are separately enclosed by a steel fence, and his paneled, second-floor office contains only one symbol of his profession: a box of cigars labeled Geheimdienst (Secret Service). (In Washington, Allen Dulles also keeps a gag prop on his desk-a plaster statuette of a man with a cloak and dagger...
...been shot down, and was poorly planned. Its creators had clearly never considered the very real possibility of a U-2 or its pilot being captured, and were trapped in a lie when Khrushchev had the goods. Yet such are the unchanging habits of bureaucracy that U.S. cloak-and-dagger types, only 48 hours before the scheduled start of the summit, actually prepared an announcement that U-2 oxygen gear had passed re-examination and flights would continue. Happily, this announcement was killed...
...rest, Donahue sometimes indulged in cornball stunts. He started a Sunday series on unsolved crimes, offered $5,000 rewards to readers coming up with solutions. When Donahue asked Mrs. Hobby's approval of the crime series, she replied: "It has an aura of the common about it. Cloak it with a mantle of decency." Recalls Donahue: "I started each piece out with a quotation about public service-J. Edgar Hoover or something-then shot the works...