Word: cold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their first greeting from their hosts was a bucket of cold water: the Soviet Foreign Office reported that Molotov was "out of town," on vacation. His second-in-command, Andrei Vishinsky, was also out of town-indisputably in Belgrade (see Conferences). Would the Westerners care to see the third-in-command, one Valerian Zorin? They would. One by one they saw Zorin, and though they left aide-mémoire, they said emphatically that they wanted to see Molotov. Thereupon, from wherever he was resting his drop-forged constitution, Molotov came back to Moscow...
Most of the defendants were old hands at fighting Government charges and they had their countercharges ready. The indictments, they shouted, were "a monstrous frame-up ... an American version of the Reichstag fire ... a domestic counterpart of the criminal bipartisan attempts to turn the war in Berlin from cold to hot." They were timed, they said, to embarrass Henry Wallace's convention in Philadelphia (see Third Parties...
...Gives the Most?" "I feel about Kashmir as one feels about a woman," says India's Premier Nehru, who comes often to sip the cold spring water in a Kashmir garden or to spin down the Jhelum River with Kashmir's Premier Sheik Abdullah (see cut). Many a tourist has shared his view, but last week the tourist flood that might have rushed to enjoy the coolness and romance of Kashmir's capital city Srinagar was dammed off by Nehru's government...
...usually born on the stone floor of a bank? And that this celluloid dragon, scorching to death every human fact in its path, must muscle its way back to its natal cave, its mouth full of dimes and nickels? . . . The Hollywood film exists only as the celebration of cold, canny (not so canny!) investment, with the resultant desire to make every movie as accessible as chewing gum, for which no more human maturity of audience is needed than a primitive pair of jaws and a bovine philosophy . . . For my personal health I'm back in New York...
...workaday psychologist. He calls every man on his squad "champ" so persuasively that they begin to believe it-and run like it. His tear-jerking "inspirational" speeches that used to go over big with wide-eyed 19-year-olds leave the ex-G.I.s on his present squad pretty cold. Says Patton: "I'm missing something...