Word: hering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking without notes, Lewis roared for three hours. Here was the same spavined warrior who had learned tactics at the knee of Sam Gompers, who had campaigned fervently for, then violently against Franklin Roosevelt, had regularly undermined the economy with his coal strikes (statisticians blame his miners for 25% of...
In the stale language of the cold war, this was the conference that could not succeed; rarely in history had an international meeting been so discounted beforehand. "What is the use of a foreign ministers' meeting?" asked Russia's Mikoyan. "We'll just send Gromyko here, he...
"Some Say . . ." The Sardauna, on becoming Premier in 1954. launched a massive campaign against his region's almost total illiteracy. But he has never been particularly keen on upsetting too many traditions. "Some here say," explains the Sardauna, "that the chiefs must be set aside. But the great majority...
President, lives here; this is one of the Chief's houses; his uncle owns this one, aunt that one. Out in the country there are magnificent ranches owned by the Chief, a handsome estate with a small French chateau owned by one of his daughters.
Yet, to its credit, the biggest part of the world's press was not fooled by the Soviet sleight of hand, played the news from Geneva pretty much down the middle. And the Western foreign ministers were determined to catch up with the Russians in handling the press. By...