Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trick Count. The U.S. delegation of 630 was a mishmash of the devout (including Paul Robeson Jr.), the trusting, and the curious. There was also a cadre of professionally coached antiCommunists, including a young American scientist, J. A. Ransahoff, who at a party-line seminar on the atom stole the Red thunder with a facts-and-figures presentation of the U.S. program for the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...Mademoiselle achieved only the boring martyrdom of five years' rural banishment from the Paris she loved. After 4-3 years of stalwart virginity in the most lascivious court in Europe, she fell passionately in love with a toy-soldier-sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent to the match, then withdrew it when a storm of popular protest blew up. The Sun King broke Mademoiselle...
...foreign-exchange institute, which tells the banks what to do. Furthermore, many prominent businessmen and politicians, including the Minister of Industry himself, have gone on record as opposed to the program, and while the government austerity drive against monopolies sounds fine on the surface, it excludes those that really count-the monopolies owned by the government itself...
...headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia, was able to offer much encouragement. "Do you know where the Russian Panzer armies are?" demanded Hitler, and got no answer. "Again no information from aerial reconnaissance . . .?" As the dreary conference droned on that sweltering July 20, 1944, a trim, distinguished colonel named Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg strolled into the room and, after being greeted by Hitler, casually placed his thick briefcase under the table, as close to the Fuhrer as possible. A few minutes later, the colonel was called outside to the telephone. At 12:50 p.m., his briefcase exploded...
...night to accept a gift machete and to toss an inning of exhibition baseball for an army team, Castro marched to the mound in high spirits. A onetime sub at the University of Havana, he unleashed a wild fast ball, got a friendly reading from the umpire. With the count at 3 and 2, Fidel whipped a high, hard one over the batter's head. "Strike three!" the umpire said...