Word: headed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unions have done much good for the country, and will be needed in the future; but when a "nod of the head" can close down entire industries, it is time to enact restraints on big labor similar to those on big business and big government...
...World War II; his influence has risen since 1957 by dint of his handling of the people-to-people exchange program; he was the top Soviet official with the Nixon party during much of the Vice President's trip. A harder-line Communist pressagent is Leonid llyichev, fiftyish, head of the agitprop organization set up to indoctrinate worldwide Communist parties, who as Soviet Foreign Office press briefing officer from 1954-58 liked to harass U.S. newsmen and lecture them: "After all, a newspaper worker is primarily a political worker...
...nestling in a steep-sided gulch in the Black Hills, was a brawling, ripsnorting oasis of 25,000 people, pungent with gunsmoke and ribaldry. There, in the late 1800s, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane lived-until that mean coward Jack McCall plugged Hickok in the back of the head as he sat at a poker table in Saloon Number Ten. There Poker Alice, the gnarled old cigar-smoking card shark, fleeced many a dude; and there lived Deadwood Dick Clark, the legendary stagecoach driver who somehow always saved the gold from the badmen. Deadwood, it was said...
...would show them the speech he intended to make to the nation only on the morning of the broadcast. But the public and politicians felt sure that a "liberal" solution was coming-and everything De Gaulle did last week strengthened that belief. In a move clearly intended to head off potential army resistance, rightist General Andre Zeller, chief of staff of French ground forces, was replaced by Gaullist General Andre Demetz. And to the African Premiers, De Gaulle for the first time used the word "self-determination" in connection with Algeria...
This week Canada installs in office a new Governor General George Philias Vanier. 71, the first French Canadian to serve as head of state in the U.S.'s next-door good neighbor...