Word: gem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historical footnotes go, this one was a gem-the news that Turkey's late Kemal Atatürk its first President, had called the British ambassador to his deathbed in 1938 and offered to make him the next President of Turkey. The incredible story appeared last week as part of an otherwise sobersided biography of the late British diplomat, Sir Pierson Dixon, written by his son. Before the Turks could protest, Tory M.P. Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe, a former diplomat, explained that it was all a 30-year-old joke perpetrated by himself. He had written a phony cable...
...congregation accepted the recommendation of a building committee to demolish the First Presbyterian's 112-year-old church and erect a much-needed larger one. Baker, 62, a professor of Victorian literature at the University of Iowa, protested that the old church was an "architectural gem" and should not be destroyed. With his wife, he embarked on a vociferous campaign to save...
...night Bill Bradley was making his debut with the Knicks, Bing stole the show and the ballgame with 32 points. Last week, as the only second-year man chosen to start the N.B.A.'s All-Star game, which the East won 144-124, Bing contributed the gem of the evening. He stole a pass, drove in for a lay-up only to find his shot blocked; still in midair, he wrenched around, shifted the ball from his left to his right hand and sank it from a different angle...
...spirits really rise with the news from the Voice of America, which begins the day's transmissions with a two-minute beeping of "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." A few bars of this serves as my daily patriotic pap and it elicits remarkable 'American' feelings and responses. At night we get a few laughs by listening to the English-language news reports from Peking--the announcers have a vocabulary range of about 35 words chief among them being 'lackey, stooge, reactionary, aggressor, imperialist, fascist, nazi, and Glorious Chairman...
...added a companion piece from Isabella's chapel, a Juan de Flandes panel illustrating The Temptation of Christ, bought at auction last June in London for $161,700. Beside the overly saccharine Sithium, the 8-in. by 6-in. miniature by De Flandes is indeed a gem of sprightly precision...