Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowds treated Nixon too much more warmly than they recently treated Khrushchev (TIME, July 27 et seq.), Poland's Communist government had carefully kept quiet the time and place of the Vice President's arrival, and the Warsaw press said nothing about the route his party would follow into Warsaw. As further insurance, Polish Communists decreed that only 500 people would be allowed onto Babice Airport to meet...
...competition from Missouri's youthful (43) Richard Boiling, who has been Mr. Sam's quarterback on labor-bill strategy. McCormack covertly began to work for Meany. Good Democrats should never split on labor issues, he soothingly told the Rayburn loyalists on the committee, and "Don't follow the Speaker down this road to ruin." As some of the Rayburn Democrats swayed, McCormack threw open support to a skeleton substitute bill drawn up by California's Teamster-tempted Jimmy Roosevelt...
...rebellion against Communist rule began in June 1956, Khrushchev insisted on making an impromptu inspection of one of Poland's corn-growing cooperative farms. As Khrushchev and Polish Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka climbed out of their black limousine, Western correspondents (whom Khrushchev jovially called "my sputniks") confidently started to follow them. They were roughly shouldered back by tough Polish secret policemen...
Soon Bretons became convinced that this path was the way of penitence; tradition demanded that they follow it in pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime or else be obliged to do so after death, advancing only one coffin-length each year. In the 10th century, Benedictine monks built a monastery just outside the town, and the pilgrimage turned into a "pardon walk" around the monastery's land-hence the word Tromenie, which is Breton for "tour of the refuge...
...work, hire private eyes to do it for them. The pros easily ease through plant security by using the most hackneyed ruses: posing as rubbernecking stockholders or newsmen, bribing disloyal employees, even hiring on as employees themselves. When a ranking executive journeys overseas on business, the private eyes often follow to check on what he is looking for. (A cheaper source of supply? New machines? New customers?) And when a top foreign manufacturer comes to the U.S., his U.S. distributor often puts a tail on him to see whether he dickers with a rival distributor for a better deal...