Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warming to his subject and maintaining his lapel grip, Khrushchev launched an attack on "responsible people in the U.S." who "read tea leaves" and talk of Soviet weakness. Some people, he said, "ponder why the Soviet Union has made so many proposals that please the West." They seem to think that if the Soviet Union makes a good decision "there is something that forced it to make that decision, and even that the Soviet Union fears some catastrophe if it does not." Let me tell you, said Khrushchev, letting go of Walmsley's coat but grasping his arm instead...
...note warned that a second bomb was set to go off before noon the next day. In the meantime, Frank was to pay out $50,000. From 6:30 to 7 that Friday evening, an agent was to stand outside the downtown Imperial Hotel with a carnation in his lapel, and the money in small bills packed in a light-colored suitcase. At 7 he was to enter a certain phone booth and wait. Frank showed the note to the police. At 7:08 p.m. a police agent was in the booth when the phone rang and a voice told...
...Though none of my colleagues would admit to being scared, they had a certain nervous look about them that made me think they felt like I did . . . Upon entering the reactor room I noticed Senator Pastore, Democrat, of Rhode Island, taking a quick glance at his [lapel instruments to test radioactivity]. Of course, I am sure it was entirely out of curiosity. I looked at mine, too . . . The atomic reactor was, of course, the center of interest. We were mere inches from lethal, deathly radioactivity. Yet, we could harmlessly place our hands on this still, warm, but quiet source...
...Executive Production Manager David Pardoll adjusts a carnation in his lapel, leaves his tiny first-floor office and goes to his regular post in the wings...
There seemed to be no escape. "What do you want?," I asked. I took the paper from her hand, and she released my lapel. "An Appropriation for the Establishment of a Pound for Homeless Cats," read the title...