Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stupid Blunder." Attlee seemed content to accept this apology. But more vociferous Labor voices were not: they were ready to turn the previous day's hail into a farewell. "An unbelievably stupid blunder," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. "It leaves Sir Winston no leg to stand on as a negotiator for peace." Other Opposition papers talked of Churchill's "failing powers." At week's end the attack took on real political weight. Ex-Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, a moderate who ranks second only to Attlee in the Labor hierarchy, declared bluntly: "If the faux...
...Galland wangled command of an elite ME 262 outfit known, because of the pack of aces he collected for it, as the "Squadron of Experts." The big picture thereupon dissolved to the gun-sight view. With the oldtime exhilaration, ex-Brasshat Galland blew up two U.S. Marauders. Then "a hail of fire enveloped me. A Mustang had caught me napping. A sharp rap hit my right knee. The instrument panel . . . was shattered. The right engine was also hit. Its metal covering worked loose . . . and was partly carried away. Now the left engine was hit too. I could hardly hold...
...junta consists of Premier Georgy Malenkov ("full of old-fashioned grace"), Nikita Khrushchev ("hail fellow well met"), Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ("quiet, patient and reasonable"), Lazar Kaganovich ("likes his liquor"), N. A. Bulganin ("handsome and witty"), A. I. Mikoyan ("probably the sharpest and cleverest of all"). All are about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...
Flight to the Sun. Despite the ugly weather, however, swarms of U.S. tourists braved rain, wind and hail to do their duty by their midwinter dreams. Airlines were bursting at their seatbelts; hotels were crammed to the rafters. "Any connoisseur of curled lips," reported a Rome correspondent of Variety, "can add to his collection by simply asking a room clerk if there is a vacancy." Italy had a big influx of quickie "flying tours," with most visitors asking American Express the directions to the fountain into which Gregory feck and Audrey Hepburn threw coins...
Forty thousand ardent Fascists gathered in Rome to hail the new head, stomped by his palace window looking upwards eagerly. But a lady visitor had come to see Mussolini, and the head was in no position to review his followers...