Word: foe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Among Equals. Aptest pupil in Stalin's school of political power, Khrushchev brought a new technique to Communist maneuver. Not even Stalin could match his deft juggling of friend and foe in shifting combinations and permutations. Moving into the key post of party secretary after Stalin's death, he teamed with Malenkov and Marshal Zhukov in 1953 to liquidate Secret Police Boss Beria. But that was the last time he had recourse to Stalin's murderous methods of eliminating rivals. When he joined with Molotov and Kaganovich to force Malenkov out of the premiership...
...dependency on the helper which is resented," and also to a "desire to reciprocate." At week's end. Congressman Green still had hopes of forcing Old Friend Murphy off the case. If he succeeded, there would be one other problem : What if the next judge is an Old Foe...
...slated highlight of Zahir's trip: a tiger hunt, for which his striped target, previously located and fattened on goats and buffalo meat, unwarily awaited the King's bullet. Alighting at Palam Airport, Cabot Lodge was greeted as a long-lost friend by his oldtime U.N. wrangling foe, V. K. Krishna Menon, now India's Defense Minister. Asked by a cameraman to keep talking with Menon, Lodge quipped: "Oh, we won't have any trouble about that!" Cane in one hand, Menon plucked jovially at the garlands around Lodge's neck, apologized with some relish...
Quick support for Brigitte's right to be shown came from Mayor Richardson Dilworth,* longtime political foe of Fellow Democrat Blanc. Cracked Dilworth: "Mr. Blanc thinks he's going to get all the votes of the women's clubs by denouncing sin." In turn, Blanc darkly noted that Dilworth's former law partners were representing the film distributor, declared: "In my opinion, the mayor is using his elective office to help his old law firm...
...whatever it does, the News can never return to the idealism of the old Fortnightly, which once undertook a campaign to make all the Radcliffe girls learn all the Radcliffe songs, some of which encourage the Annex athletes to come home "triumphant o'er the foe...