Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wall came a dome 106 ft. in diameter. The stained-glass windows, still to be donated, will be fitted in just beneath the dome, to filter sunlight. Thanks to sunken gardens adjoining the church, more sunlight streams into the lower level. Since Wright's concrete is painted egg-yellow, it is sometimes hard to tell where sun begins and building ends. The dome is gold inside, royal blue outside...
...often as thick as cockroaches. A favorite spot is under or even in a bed, where the bugs might pick up useful leads for blackmail. For many U.S. families in Iron Curtain countries, sleuthing for bugs has become a kind of sport, an indoor counterpart to the Easter egg hunt. One couple in a satellite capital boasts that its cocker spaniel can sniff out a bug as surely as a pig snuffling a truffle. But new bugs always take their place...
Duck's Egg. Some Western experts found the white paper's criticisms just too strident to be true. Or, if the paper was authentic, they suspected that it might be a calculated leak by Khrushchev, who is perennially running for office as the West's favorite Communist. Khrushchev, these experts argue, would like nothing better than to extract concessions from the West in the guise of the reasonable world statesman who needs to show results if he is to stand up to big, bad Mao. Deutscher himself is an ex-Communist and avowed Trotskyite who, though...
...Geneva, where he spent more time making contacts among European Communists than worrying about Laos, was sufficiently impressed by the paper to be annoyed about it. "You will not find a crack in the Sino-Soviet alliance any more than you will find one in a duck's egg," he told a French reporter. But he could not resist adding: "The heaviest Soviet satellite weighs four tons. China is too heavy to become a satellite.'' A Polish Communist source insisted that the Deutscher paper was "technically false," but conceded in the next breath that it nevertheless reflected...
...intra-union battles, asked for (and got) more time to work out the right formula. But some union leaders suspect that the problem will get worse before it gets better. Moans Plumbers and Pipefitters Union President Peter Schoemann: "The 'grey area' and [the jurisdictional] 'scrambled egg' area used to be just a one-egg omelet; now it's getting...