Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's Nikita Khrushchev found it necessary to reveal some great weaknesses in his drive for a farm output that would soon equal that of the U.S.-and to serve notice in guarded but unmistakable fashion that he is going to put pressure on the peasantry of his collective farms to give up their private plots and cows...
...proceedings of the Soviet Communist Party's 253-man Central Committee Plenum while it was going on. By this precedent-smashing maneuver, Nikita Khrushchev sought to broadcast as swiftly and dramatically as possible his speech signaling a shift in Soviet agricultural policy. Acting so abruptly, in such untimely fashion just six weeks before the 21st Party Congress is due to meet, Boss Nikita gave many the idea that he was in something of a sweat...
...massive slab 1 ft. thick and 4 ft. wide. Apparently bent on a rest, he started to clamber out of the 6-ft. pit. But. at just that moment, the huge gravestone toppled forward and crashed down on the luckless Kawamura. What the fortuneteller had prophesied had, in a fashion, come to pass: Kawamura's bad luck was at last at an end. He was dead...
...task forces to find and recover three earlier Jupiter nose cones. But this time, somehow, the apparatus failed to work. After searching for six hours, the task force gave up, and the Army announced that Little Old Reliable was missing in action and presumed dead. But after his electronic fashion, he had made his contribution to the physiological space chart...
...encouragingly clear last week by another big roundup: the Whitney Museum's annual exhibition of American painting and sculpture in Manhattan. There, too, abstract expressionism ruled by force of numbers. But among the 184 exhibits were a handful of pictures calculated to put the new princes of art fashion on their mettle and to prove that the great traditions of American painting still run broad and deep...