Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin during the blockade." Khrushchev switched to deploring the sad plight of the workers in the capitalist U.S. When Riddleberger countered that U.S. workers were in fact pretty well off, Khrushchev rumbled that Riddleberger had no connection with the working class. Replied the ambassador: "I have been a farm hand, bricklayer and house painter. I think I had just about as much connection with the working class...
...surplus now stands at 26 million tons, with 7,000,000 in Belgium alone. The formation of the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community-creating a common market in these products in France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-finally forced the government's hand...
...long as the French were in control, the rivalry between the territory's two leading politicians was kept in hand. The flamboyant Abbé Fulbert Youlou-a Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation...
They arrived hot and tired, shedding platinum mink stoles and loosening neckties. Shoulders sagged under three cameras (black-and-white, color, movies). Hand baggage bulged with lotions, nostrums, Doctor Zhivago and Around the World with Auntie Mame...
WOMEN DRINKERS are returning to liquor ads, ending the gentlemen's agreement among admen not to use them. Calvert Distillers Co. will offer a Lady of Distinction (without glass in hand), while Glenmore Distilleries Co. will feature a woman in Scotch...