Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor-bill strategy. McCormack covertly began to work for Meany. Good Democrats should never split on labor issues, he soothingly told the Rayburn loyalists on the committee, and "Don't follow the Speaker down this road to ruin." As some of the Rayburn Democrats swayed, McCormack threw open support to a skeleton substitute bill drawn up by California's Teamster-tempted Jimmy Roosevelt...
...meet him halfway as signs of weakness." And so Gromyko did. In the eighth week of "negotiations" at Geneva, with the mechanical insistence of a recorded time signal, he reiterated demands that the West could not agree to without, in effect, weakening Berlin and laying West Germany itself open to Moscow meddling. Early in the week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely meaningless procedural concession, and agreed to discuss Berlin "simultaneously" with Russian plans for an All-German Commission...
Still vivid in the memory of most Athenians is the day in May 1941 when 19-year-old Emmanuel Glezos slipped silently into the ruins atop the Acropolis and tore down the Nazi swastika that desecrated the sacred rock. With this first open defiance of Greece's World War II German occupiers, Glezos made himself a national hero...
...during the brief (four-to 16-week) shipping season or hauled in expensively by air freight. A housewife in a remote R.C.M.P. station on Baffin Island once watched the midwinter supply plane safely parachute twelve packets to the ground; the 13th smashed heavily when the parachute failed to open. Said she to her husband: "What do you bet that was my china...
...driving. Another insisted that he was not really a dangerous driver because a "close shave" would wake him and he had not yet had a serious accident. One of the sons had been disciplined in the Army for sleeping on duty, became a truck driver (he kept the windows open even in winter to stay awake); he fell asleep twice during the Mayo interview. One of his sisters has the knack of napping while standing...