Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreements after World War II, the Korean cease-fire at Panmunjom and the Japanese Peace Treaty. Truman, Attlee and Stalin used a Parker to sign the Potsdam agreement, and Khrushchev flew home with a sup ply of Parkers after his shoe-slapping U.N. visit three years ago. In develop ing nations, where the fight against il literacy is constantly creating the need for more pens, a Parker pen is one of the status symbols of the educated...
...Africa Hall." Eyes glittering, Nkrumah took the floor to demand "Unity Now!" in the form of a vast United States of Africa, ruled by a bicameral Congress and a strong presidency (which, no one doubted, Nkrumah feels himself eminently qualified to occupy). Nkrumah likened the Addis Ababa meet ing to the 1787 Constitutional Congress in Philadelphia, whose delegates, he said, thought of themselves not as "Virginians or Pennsylvanians, but simply Americans." Cried Ghana's self-styled Redeemer: "We meet here today not as Ghanaians, Guineans, Egyptians. Algerians, Moroccans, Malians, Liberians, Congolese, or Nigerians, but as Africans...
...Republican National Convention in 1952. Still McKeldin was the underdog. But the Republican candidate for city comptroller withdrew after a firm he once headed was found insolvent by the Baltimore Circuit Court. The G.O.P. filled the vacancy with Hyman Pressman, a Democrat who had switched tickets after los ing his own party's nomination for comptroller. Pressman, self-styled "watchdog'' of Baltimore's budget, is a perennial candidate for one office or another and, while never before a winner, he has a considerable following. Baltimore politicians figured that his presence on the ticket attracted enough Democrats...
...fishermen themselves do the talk ing, passing out friendly tips to the chairborne clods at home (wade like a silent Indian, watch your shadow, keep your hooks sharp). One man, using what looks like two-ton test line, demonstrates his fantastic casting skill by flicking successfully into a 50-m.p.h. gale...
Brenner and Erhard scheduled a meet ing in an attempt to head off the strike before it spreads to the heavily industrialized Ruhr, where workers have already voted for a strike. Meanwhile, Volkswagen, Opel and Ford warned that they will have to close down this week because of a shortage of supplies. Unless Erhard can find some way to keep a wage settlement within reasonable bounds, the German miracle is in trouble; 10 million other German workers have already put in new wage claims...