Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obedient satellite world of Eastern Europe, the press was quick to crow, "A Personal Victory for Nikita Khrushchev," and it became indelicate to attack the classic enemy, "American ruling circles." The "Paris-Bonn Axis" became the new target, and Communists sought to isolate West Germany's Konrad Adenauer as the only warmonger left. Only in Communist China was there a delayed reaction, and then a restrained and dutiful approval of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting (a similar lack of enthusiasm came from Formosa...
...turn. Paul Butler phoned Sam Rayburn for an appointment, then jogged up to the Capitol and spent an hour in earnest conversation with Rayburn and Johnson. There was little doubt that his action was in the nature of a peace pilgrimage that included a single serving of crow for a strangely silent Paul Butler...
Presumably, Paul Butler munched these specifics along with his crow during his meeting with Rayburn and Johnson, but when newsmen poured into Mr. Sam's office to look at the bones, everything was tidy and all was sweet harmony. "We agreed," said Rayburn, "that none of the three of us is trying to be divisive. There was no loud talk, no violent disagreement, no fightin' and scratchin'." Rayburn added that he takes no stock in demands for Butler's resignation, and that he and Johnson assured Butler that they are true to the Democratic Party...
...hair was white as a breaker's foam. But the brown eyes were as keen as ever behind the crow's-feet wrinkles of half a century spent peering at sky and sea. Ruddy and fit in his natty yacht-club blazer, Cornelius Shields (TIME cover, July 27, 1953) was every inch a blue-water skipper as he relaxed last week in Long Island's Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and started to instruct 33 experienced sailors about his happy...
...free speech except bad politicians and complacent bureaucrats," said Glover, drawing an early bead on both. His paper constantly needles the administration's listless native education program, helped earn New Guinea's Chinese new recognition as suitable candidates for citizenship, patiently runs down every tale of Jim Crow injustice from its colored readers. As vigorous a practitioner as a preacher, the Post four years ago set up a native training program in its composing room (one rule: no loose-flowing laplaps), currently employs 28 New Guineans in Port Moresby at salaries ranging up to $63 a month plus...