Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budapest even the food stores were closed. An old news vendor had her news papers snatched away and torn to shreds. There was water, gas and electric power, but no traffic police. Some Soviet tanks stood roped off in planted positions, but armored cars patrolled continuously. In front of the National Theater, Sunday gathering place for Budapest, an old man, made brave by wine, smashed his empty bottle against a Soviet tank. Police rushed in, beat up the old man with rifle butts. This was too much for the crowd. They roughed up the police. The Russians fired a machine...
...privately but in strong terms, for being ineffectual. Personality: Sometimes called a "junior Churchill" because of his genial, jowly resemblance, balding, 230-lb. Spaak is an eloquent and dramatic speaker in his own right, with an inexhaustible fund of energy and a warm passion for good talk, good food and good company. Writhing in histrionic impatience on a parliamentary bench, his face contorted with unspoken rejoinders, he has been known to reduce opposition speakers to near paralysis. At work alone, however, he is calm, efficient and dictatorial. "You can do whatever you want," runs his formula for those who work...
...early last week Port-au-Prince's stores, gas stations, factories and big Iron Market, source of most of the city's food, were shut tight. In a scene reminiscent of The Emperor Jones, Magloire in full uniform paraded through town demanding that merchants open up. They either avoided their presidential visitor or refused his demands. Two days later, somewhat humbler, Magloire called in his constitutional successor, Supreme Court President Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, and turned over the office of chief executive...
...army command. The strike went on another day. Then a group of army officers quietly told Magloire he must leave at once, and threatened to remove his guards. Magloire finally gave up. By the time he settled in Jamaica, grinning countrywomen were already striding down from the hills with food for the market...
...miners that their out put had slid off calamitously since they tasted freedom. Unless they spent more time in the pits and less at meetings, and unless they began obeying mine bosses' orders again, said Gomulka, Poland would not have enough coal to send abroad for the food and raw materials it must import to live on. There is "no possibility" of general wage raises in 1957, said he, without a simultaneous increase in production. But Gomulka had a special concession for the miners: since they were underpaid, their "basic wages should be appropriately raised." This did not stop...