Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany. In fact, Khrushchev got his only show of genuine enthusiasm on his Polish tour when he rolled through the haunted, once-devastated "Western territories," formerly German but now Polish, and enthusiastically sided with Polish claims. Said Khrushchev, as he set the theme in Katowice: "Adenauer seems to follow in the footsteps of Hitler, who is now decaying in the earth. I say to Adenauer: 'If you try to attack the Socialist countries, you won't be able to leave your own hole in the ground.' " Then up spoke Wladyslaw Gomulka, the perfect host: "Adenauer strives...
...women came in two categories-either "provocatively clad" or, if "less young and shapely, disgustingly clad." Last week the colonel clamped down in earnest. From now on, any serviceman's wife who tries to enter a public building on base will have her identity card "checked for appropriate follow-up action...
RUSSIAN WORK WEEK will be reduced to 42 hours in October for 6,000,000 engineering workers now on job 45 hours. They will follow 1,000,000 coal miners now on 42-hour week. Red leaders promise that all workers will have a six-day, 42-hour week by 1960, a 40-hour week by 1962, and a 35-hour week...
...fend off McDonald but, like any man who has put together a grand alliance, also had to keep the other steel companies united behind him. Both Blough and McDonald knew that if one company broke from line and made a private settlement, all the others would have to follow. McDonald has scurried about in search of an opening in management's ranks, tried time and again to sit down with the heads of individual steel companies. But Blough, skilled in negotiating, has kept his alliance together. He went to great lengths to avoid appearing to run the show-though...
...processionary caterpillar plays a lifelong game of follow-the-leader, and if the head of the first caterpillar is introduced to the tail of the last, the entire procession goes round and round until all the caterpillars die of starvation...