Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Precisely on schedule at 5 p.m., the door of the plane opened, and there, half as large as life, stood stubby little Nikita Khrushchev, his arms up in a gesture which seemed to say, 'Here I am, you lucky people.' As Tito, enormously dignified, walked up the red ceremonial carpet to meet him, Khrushchev happily skipped down the plane ramp, looking for all the world like a samovar salesman arriving at Minsk for the annual convention. He was all smiles and handshakes and pats on the back, and seemed to do a happy little dance. Beaming, Khrushchev said...
...Years Since. Tito also took a dictator's precautions. He rounded up and put in prison more than 11,000 persons suspected of favoring the Cominform's policy-where they joined the Split fishermen. For months Tito scuffed a servile shoe outside the Cominform's closed door, angrily brushed off any suggestion of help from the West, and pleaded to be taken back. The Kremlin responded by cutting off Yugoslavia's trade with one satellite after another. In September 1949, it declared Yugoslavia "a foe and an enemy of the Soviet Union," and ended its mutual...
...Paul (I Corinthians 14:34). But Christ put women very near the center of things, and they have played a mighty role in church history as saints and martyrs, organizers and spiritual guides.* Orthodox and Roman Catholic canon laws forbid females to administer the sacraments, but Protestantism opened the door with its conception of the priesthood of all believers, and in recent years, women ministers have become almost a sectarian commonplace. The U.S. census for 1950 reported an alltime high of 6,777 -4.1% of the total number of clergymen...
...hand for the occasion were the top bargainers for both sides: U.A.W. President Walter Reuther and a dozen aides sat along one side of a felt-covered table with their backs to the door; Ford Vice President John Bugas and a dozen of his staff faced them across the table with their backs to the wall...
...protest. Then negotiators from both sides began to shout and pound the table. Suddenly, Reuther stormed out of the meeting with U.A.W.'s Ford Chief Ken Bannon at his side and lesser autoworkers trailing behind. No sooner had they cleared the passageway than Bugas burst through the door, snapped out: "I need a drink...