Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navarre's proudest exploit in those delicate days when the French were Germany's captives came later, when he openly radioed information on German sea movements to the British on Malta, then sat back to await the fireworks. R.A.F. squadrons sped west from Malta and in minutes destroyed two-thirds of the 15th Panzer Division, destined for Rommel's Afrika Korps. Admiral Darlan got wind of this feat and sent Navarre to Vichy, where he was kept under surveillance. He soon escaped into the underground-thanks to a guard who became his friend (and later became...
...G.O.P. expects to put up strong candidates for Congress next year in 20 of the 38 districts that Dwight Eisenhower carried in 1952. Republican leaders realize that the conservative South offers a real potential, and the whole G.O.P. national machinery is determined to exploit the opportunities. The Republican Party talked about a two-party South after Herbert Hoover carried five Southern states in 1928, but failed to fellow up with concrete effort. If the G.O.P.'s current efforts continue to be successful, the new shoots in the old South may well grow into the biggest U.S. political development...
...asylum in England as an anti-Communist refugee who loosened a few rivets in Czechoslovakia's Iron Curtain. Edna is still reading about the exploit in the papers when Charles shows up with Eva and announces that she will stay the week. With her intuitive antennae out a mile, Edna spots Eva as phony, senses that Charles knows it too and soon realizes that Charles knows that she knows...
...Democrats, for their part, were solidly lined up to exploit McCarthy's discomfiture. When he wrote a 2,000-word letter to Senators John L. McClellan, Stuart Symington and Henry M. Jackson, asking them to return to their seats, all three sent back a firm "Thanks, no." Wrote Jackson: "I can find nothing in your letter that indicates any change in subcommittee policies or any desire to afford subcommittee members the authority, right and voice commensurate with their responsibility...
Acid Bulbs. Last month the British-owned tramways provided just such a provocation. To give its workers a bonus and cost-of-living allowance, the company increased the fare by one pice (one-third of a cent). Bengalis objected, and the Communists made haste to exploit the issue...