Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Master Sinner. In deference to Labor's unilateralist disarmers, Wilson had pledged that, once in office, he would not only scrap Britain's independent deterrent but also oppose the U.S.-backed multi-lateral force. However, in his talks with President Johnson in Washington, he had, in fact, not so much opposed MLF as proposed a way of enlarging and diluting it. In reporting on his talks to the party conference, Wilson hedged: he had not committed Britain to MLF. he said, and had entirely "reserved" his position. This was patently less than the whole truth, but enough...
...House of Commons, Opposition Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home sharply pointed up the schizophrenia of Wilson's position: "If ownership of nuclear weapons is a sin, we do not gain absolution by appointing a master sinner to deploy the weapons for us, or by joining a syndicate which deals in these weapons." Home added that with "eight or nine fingers on the safety catch, the force would be almost totally incredible as a deterrent...
...basis of his early history, no one could have seemed less likely to become a master manipulator of the smart set. Born 50 years ago in Warsaw into a wealthy Polish family, he was educated in Switzerland and Belgium, where he ran a family-owned cigarette factory. At 21 he was heavyweight amateur boxing champion of Europe. When World War II broke out, he joined the Polish army in France, did time in prison camps, escaped, and eventually found himself under orders from Polish intelligence. When he managed to smuggle himself to London, Intelligence arranged for him to open...
...avoided headlines while putting his mark on more than 15 U.S. cities, Pei, 47, has won double awards for his dramatic, clean-cut towers and town houses in Philadelphia's Society Hill (TIME, Nov. 6). He is rejuvenating 160 acres of Cleveland, is master planner with vast authority of a $200 million reconstruction project in Boston, has a say-so in the downtown redevelopments in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Providence and Columbus. Winning a Federal Aviation Agency commission, Pei has designed a universal trim, pentagonal control tower now being installed in at least 25 U.S. airports. More than...
...master who painted the book is unknown, but he had the sharp eye of a jeweler. Details only 1/32 of an inch are revealed by a magnifying glass as ducks floating on a pond. He portrays hell's horrors with shrieking, Bosch-like surrealism, but more divine images receive less than medieval veneration. Christ's birth and infancy are treated with the tenderness of an uncle. The artist took his greatest liberties in the borders of his illuminations. There he imitates a grape arbor's lattice in textiles and lacework, borders a saint with pretzels that were...