Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contesting with Nye Bevan for the party treasuryship, had been the most persistent of Khrushchev's hecklers at the dinner. He had been swamped with mail since "I scattered the cat among the pigeons," he said, and proudly added: "Mr. Khrushchev told me he had not met a man like me for 30 or 40 years-since he got rid of theMensheviks...
...body made up of the three "estates"-clergy, nobility and bourgeoisie-which achieved its greatest glory in 1789 when it met and launched the French Revolution. Meeting in the tennis court at Versailles, the third and largest estate defied the King, became the first legislature of the revolution...
...Russian frogmen met their British counterpart in the quiet deep? Had Buster Crabb been killed then and there, or kidnaped and carried off to Russia? At week's end, the mystery of Frogman Crabb's fate remained as deep and impenetrable as the waters that surrounded so much of his life...
...train pulled into Seoul, it was met by a crowd of 20,000, many of them students from Korea University and the National University of Seoul, both anti-Rhee strongholds. "Overthrow Dictator Syngman Rhee," they shouted. Some climbed over the train and smashed windows in an effort to view Shinicky's body. Then, when the body was transferred to an ambulance, demonstrators snake-danced through the streets after...
Last month, when Marilyn flew back to Hollywood to make a movie version of William Inge's Bus Stop with a Monroe approved director (Joshua Logan) Hollywood turned out to meet her as few women have been met. Hundreds of news men and photographers moiled for vantage as she stepped off the plane, and a crowd churned about her for more than two hours before she could take evasive Cadillaction. But Hollywood was not yet prepared to admit that she knew anything about acting. The part she was playing in Bus Stop, the argument ran, was the same part...