Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West's thrust into the Middle East had temporarily jolted even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser into comparative sobriety. The Russians had responded to the West's show of force with mere bluster-a fact that in time may sink into many a Middle Eastern mind. And so it was that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq, but what to do about Nikita Khrushchev...
Secretary Dulles, who as a chief legal architect of the U.N. Charter has all its provisions neatly cross-indexed in his mind, spotted a way around the yes-no dilemma. Under the charter, Dulles pointed out, Khrushchev could sit in the U.N. Security Council if he wanted to. Around that point, Dulles and the President shaped Eisenhower's reply to Khrushchev...
...bone dry. The Army enforced anti-firewater regulations in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, and Sooners adopted prohibition along with statehood in 1907. Six repeal efforts failed, in part because bootleggers (estimated 1957 gross: $100 million) lavishly shared profits with any sheriffs and other officials who were of a mind to make trouble. Against this aged blend of piety and politics, James Howard Edmondson, red-haired (nicknamed "Nugget Head") young (32) county attorney from Tulsa, entered this year's Democratic primaries as an avowed Wet who proposed, if elected Governor, to call a quick special election for repeal...
Finally, Mike has been immobilized by the menace of E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, elected Democratic delegate to Congress for seven terms and widely regarded in Alaska as politically invincible. Bartlett was openly after the Stepovich scalp, and even while announcing for the U.S. Senate, vowed to change his mind the moment Mike declared for Governor. Under pressure of cooler heads, Bartlett reconsidered, reaffirmed his senatorial candidacy "without conditions of any kind...
...avocado: "A hard center with the tender meat all wrapped up in a shiny casing. So green-so eternally green . . . And I will tell you something really extraordinary. Do you know that you can take the stones of these luscious fruits, put them in water-just plain water, mind you . . . and in three months up comes a sturdy little plant full of green leaves? This is their sturdy little souls bursting into bloom...