Word: maze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheer Impertinence." In his marathon reply to Noon, stonewalling Krishna Menon tediously led the Security Council through a nine-year maze of military reports, diplomatic exchanges, ministerial conferences, press clippings and gossip. To demonstrate the justice of India's position, he ranged from the status of Texas after the Civil War to Australian constitutional law. Out of it all emerged one clear point: India had no intention of permitting a plebiscite in Kashmir...
...become the Ruhr of the South, but it's bound to happen.") Along the York River, a new $70 million American Oil Co. refinery is in full operation near Yorktown, where the grass-carpeted trenches of the final battle for American independence still twist in a mystifying maze. And along the Potomac, in the Arlington-Alexandria area across from the nation's capital, are beehives of brick housing developments inhabited by thousands of federal workers viewed by most Virginians as foreigners...
There, while aides watched the early returns, Kefauver napped. Finally, in the smoke-filled Statler Hotel Presidential Room, in a maze of glowing lights, foot-tripping cord and people jostling each others' highball glasses, he made the loser's traditional speech. J. Howard McGrath, Kefauver adviser and onetime Democratic National chairman, insisted that his man had emerged from the pasting unscarred, unscathed, even enhanced. "How about 1960?" some of the crowd yelled. Kefauver's sagging face lit up and split into a crescent-moon grin. "I'm just thinking of relaxing for the next...
...corps commander asked permission to pull out. In the best British tradition Sir Ian fired off a midnight reply: "You have got through the difficult business, now you have only to dig, dig, dig until you are safe." Before dawn the assault troops turned the seaward slopes into a maze of huddled holes and ditches...
...Abner's simple satire is often lost in this maze, and the frequent barbed references--to Ike, parity, Stevenson, Presley, toothpaste, Kim Novak, Wall St. and war--often overweigh the two long acts...