Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draped him with garlands of flowers after the Governor's announcement in the Legislative Council. All that night, green-shirted members of his Tanganyika African National Union danced in the streets and sang party hymns. For once, colonial officials did not need to fear a fervent nationalist display, for Nyerere has won the confidence of most Tanganyika whites, who admire the patience and moderation with which he has conducted the campaign for self-government...
...Eisenhower's stern admonition before he departed for Asia that "America needs a settlement now," despite the danger than an aroused public might prod Congress into passing drastic antistrike legislation, Dave McDonald and the steel industry's negotiator, Conrad Cooper, broke off negotiations at midweek in another display of stubborn disregard for the public interest. McDonald airily demanded that the steel industry return to company-by-company bargaining (the big steel companies set up an industry bargaining committee in 1956), a demand that nobody took very seriously...
...Manhattan store packed with Christmas shoppers, an impatient customer stopped in front of a display typewriter and banged out a desperate note: "Why don't you wait on me?" All over the U.S. last week, harried clerks were faced with similar problems as they tried to placate hordes of well-heeled customers who nocked into the stores for a record Christmas-buying spree. Dun & Bradstreet analysts estimated that sales in the nation's department stores and mail-order houses will reach a record $2.4 billion in December, up $200 million from 1958, the previous record...
...past been held by such men as Grant, Harding, and Eisenhower will be empty after 1961, because no one wants it. Of course the routine of patriotic reluctance and ultimate submission to an "unwanted" nomination is old and familiar. But we are now asked to witness a display of coquetry unprecedented even in William Jennings Bryan's day: the spectacle of the dozen or so most qualified and ambitious men in the United States rushing around making speeches and posing and conferring with political not-so-hidden persuaders and denying that they want to be President...
...Yorkshire Regiment, dragged away from his Land Rover, was kept tied up in the tenement for three days, then left in a steel locker to suffocate to death while Anglo-French search parties were combing the neighborhood. As a museum honoring the "heroes" who had kidnaped him, it would display Moorhouse's identity card, the locker in which he was kept, and even the rope that bound...