Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shot Again? The case was a mess from the beginning. Violet had told the Seattle police, that night in 1954: "He's been nagging me for weeks, picking at me and driving me nuts, and I couldn't stand it any longer." So, she said, as police examined husband Marion's fatal neck wound, she got out the shotgun, killed her husband as he lay on the couch, and wounded herself superficially in the arm and stomach in a suicide attempt-firing three shots in all. Satisfied with her story, the cops neglected to complete the normal...
...Pearson text. When he saw it, Hagerty called a press conference and spent 45 angry minutes taking apart "the most amazing document of falsehood that I have ever''seen." To any of some 80 newsmen who covered the President's trip, the column seemed a distorted mess that the simplest checking would have proved false. Apart from "absolutely and categorically" denying that Ike had suffered "the slightest relapse of any kind," Hagerty ticked off ten errors, obvious to all, in the sketchy framework on which Pearson rested his report. Samples...
...diplomatic qualifications. From his job as president of Columbia University (1948-50) President Truman recalled him to command and to fuse the forces of NATO, the heart of U.S. and Western European foreign policy. There Ike began to hear the mounting summons of Republicans and independents ("What a mess our blessed nation is in," the dying Senator Vandenberg had cried, adding hopefully, "Thank God for Eisenhower") urging him to come home...
...Holland last week. For the first time, the people of The Netherlands seemed to have abandoned their hope that the royal crisis would disappear if they just pretended not to notice; for the first time, Dutch editors clamored specifically and vociferously for drastic government action to clear up that mess in Soestdijk Palace...
Buying Spree. The mess is mainly the result of a reckless national buying spree. It began in mid-1954, when high coffee prices earned Colombia a record income. Then coffee prices fell. To curb the spree, the government put its faith in two major controls...