Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women made off with all the rayon hosiery in sight, stocked up on lingerie, California sportswear. Haberdashers unexpectedly sold dozens of dark Homburgs to diplomats who wanted to look like Eden. White shirts, scarce anyway, vanished from store shelves under the visitors' onslaught. Merchants who set up translating departments found them unnecessary. The UNCIO shoppers, discriminating but disinclined to haggle, just wanted to know "how many can we have...
...strong man in Greece today is Kyriakos Varvaressos. Tall, well-built and well-dressed, he is a banker (governor of the National Bank of Greece), and looks like one. Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan recommended him to the Greek Government as the man who could most likely stabilize the country's economy. Already he can point to several notable achievements. The cost of living has declined 30% despite the fact that Varvaressos has devaluated the drachma and raised wages...
Missing in Action. Sergeant Simon Eden, 20, elder son of Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, R.A.F. navigator on an operational flight in Burma...
...first and most significant crisis of the San Francisco conference appeared the second day. It arose in the steering committee, when Anthony Eden moved that Ed Stettinius be made permanent chairman of the conference. Molotov objected: he said that a presidium of the four sponsoring powers should rotate among themselves the chairmanships of the plenary sessions and of the most important committees...
...time, Molotov's proposal was widely misinterpreted as sheer rudeness. Even Stettinius and Eden opposed it on the wrong grounds: they simply thought that it would snarl up the whole conference procedure. Not until later did Molotov's opponents realize that in forcing him to back down-as he did-they had won the opening round in a long battle for free discussion...