Word: closed-door
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Perhaps because they had been assembled and waiting for nearly eight hours, the Central Committee members were in no mood to hear more Khrushchevian haranguing. He was interrupted again and again with catcalls from the floor. When one minister accused him of a closed-door policy (he had tried to see Khrushchev for two years and failed), Nikita snapped: "My ministers are a bunch of blockheads." The Central Committee rejected him, but by a close margin. It was nearly dawn. Exhausted, Nikita Khrushchev offered his resignation in a soft, subdued voice and walked out of the hall...
...closed-door sessions, Kennedy pretty much convinced his presidential peers that: 1) the U.S. is keeping close watch on vessels outbound from Cuba to other Latin American ports; 2) the U.S. will interfere with any such ships carrying arms or troops; 3) the U.S. will send, to any Central American nations that request it, enough military force to combat Communist subversion...
...means the Perón-manipulated General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.) and the various Perónista associations of businessmen, professional men and students. In some cities and provinces, "people's organizations" meddle in government affairs, and local authorities sometimes resist the meddling. At Perón's closed-door meeting with provincial governors last month, spokesmen for the Perónista associations rapped several provincial officials for failing to pay "people's organizations" due heed. Aware that more than three provincial governments took verbal stonings at the meeting, newsmen asked Minister Borlenghi last week whether there would...