Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exactly 2:02 o'clock one afternoon last week-less than ten hours before the deadline-word reached the steelworkers' Pittsburgh headquarters: Big Steel had capitulated. The creeping threat of a shutdown in the nation's most basic industry was suddenly lifted. His face lined with the strain of waiting, 63-year-old President Phil Murray called in the newsmen: "We are delighted to be able to say that the strike has been averted...
There were several immediate questions to face: one was a British request for a greater exchange of classified atomic information with Great Britain and Canada. Another was that the British soon might demand a larger share of the crucial Belgian Congo uranium production, which is now shipped mostly to the U.S. The U.S. would probably have to reach some sort of atomic accord with Britain...
...brother. When he did not come back, his wife Lena went to the headquarters of the Haganah, in which her husband held a high post. "I asked everyone where Mischa was," she recalls. "Most of them wouldn't talk to me. They shut their doors in my face...
...seven months since he was overthrown as El Salvador's president, diabetic, aging (60) General Salvador Castaneda Castro has occupied a cell in the capital's drab concrete Central Penitentiary. Cut off from his hair dye and face powder, the vain old man has watched his mane resume its whiteness, his complexion its Indian bronze. Guards passing his tidy cell peer in to see their model prisoner seated on an army cot, thumbing through his meager four-volume library as he awaits trial on charges of "colossal graft...
...from their will and seem to plummet, from shock, into old age. Author Mitford is no woman to let her story stop there. With 80 pages to go, she rushes in scented, scintillating Cousin Cedric, the new heir from Canada, to charm Lady Montdore off the shelf. A face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word "brush" before entering the drawing room (it fixes her smile) convert her Edwardian pomp into a garish girlishness. Cedric completes his round of conquests by capturing Polly's husband, who has lost his interest in women anyway, and whisking...