Word: dustup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel El-fego Monzón, who as army chief negotiated the peace with Castillo Armas after Arbenz stepped down. Monzón at first served on a governing junta with Castillo Armas, then drifted into the background, his loyalties unclear. His involvement in last week's dustup consisted mainly of his friendship with several of the plotters. Not quite willing to jail his old comrade Monzón on such a flimsy accusation, Castillo Armas neutralized him in quite another way: he sent officers, who hustled the colonel off by plane to be Ambassador to Argentina...
...dustup promised little success for John Kennedy's crusade, since most of Kennedy's recommendations would require action by Congress. But it gave the U.S. a reminder of how fast a region can change its line once it changes its economy: Yankee New England was now openly in the lists for federal help, while the South and West, which used to yell for federal help against the East Coast octopi, now speak in the phrases of laissez-faire...
...trusting innocence becomes a sure guarantee of safety. Audrey Hepburn's princess seems never to forget her exalted station, even when she is gulping an ice cream cone, getting her hair cut or whamming a cop over the head with a guitar in a nightclub dustup. Yet to scenes where she is playing the princess proper, she brings a wistfulness that seems completely unposed. She can be infinitely appealing with her hair snarled and her dress dripping wet. In the film's final moments, she becomes a lonely little figure of great pathos and dignity...
...This dustup only served to prove how futile and eventually disillusionary a practice it is to cover over disagreements with calculated ambiguities. In the new, more realistic vein, the West's proposal for the forthcoming political conference declares that no nation on the U.N. side need be bound by any decision for which it has not voted...
...major general went into retirement eight months ago after he had set off an international dustup by advocating a preventive war on the U.S.S.R...