Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State of Mind Warned General Ridgway: "There is a truckload of minutiae still to be discussed." Communist truce mechanics, equipped with monkey wrenches, seemed determined to keep the truck stalled. Last week they: 1) threatened to make a truce issue of Peking's charge that U.S. planes had bombed Manchuria; 2) accused the U.N. of "barbarously massacring" Korean civilians at the Koje Island prison camp (see above); 3) said that they would hold out forever, if necessary, against the U.N. proposal for the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war; 4) continued to insist that Russia be accepted...
...food center handled "starting-to-spoil" meat, that hamburgers were watered and sugared to disguise the taste, and that the meat was delivered to the schools in containers coated with maggots. After Mrs. Swan's appearance, the board hastily reformed the food center. But was there still some monkey business about the contracts...
That afternoon, at a garden party, the royal couple met, among 2,800 guests, red-turbaned Somali tribesmen, Masai elders in monkey skins, wielding flywhisks of horsehair, and a chief who sported, screwed into his pierced lower lip, an ivory pendant as big as a billiard ball. Elizabeth had still not overcome the nervousness noted on her Canadian visit, but Philip moved easily, chatted graciously, as though enjoying every moment...
Last week, the Government decided to monkey with potatoes again, this time because the price was too high. It had reached more than 105% of parity and OPS Boss Mike Di Salle can control any farm products above parity. He rolled back white potato prices 5% to 26% at farm and wholesale levels and will soon follow with similar rollbacks at retail levels. Potato growers promptly protested. They thought that supply & demand would cure the high prices just as they had the low. Their sensible argument: to cash in on the high prices, potato growers would soon raise so many...
AUGUST-Missing Links. In Vancouver, B.C., police sought four tosspots who had been pushing each other into a zoo moat to entertain the sober inhabitants of Stanley Park's monkey house...