Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had been supporting a completely contrary resolution, a Polish catch-all that, in effect, would have reopened the Korean issue and brought it before the Assembly for debate. For 90 minutes he had sneered and snorted at the U.S. for "quibbling" and "stalling." Overnight the Poles withdrew their proposal, and Vishinsky, making a 180° turn with bland imperturbability, praised the Brazilian substitute as "good and appropriate . . . in the present circumstances." Sweet, rare unanimity thereupon prevailed for the first time on any matter involving the Korean war. The Assembly's Political Committee...
...More Bedbugs. That left the way clear for Beria to reorganize Georgia in his own way. The old "national" constitution was ditched overnight, the President and his staff were fired. Adventurist Rukhadze's Ministry of State Security-the agency most at fault for accusing the "innocents" and showing up Beria-was merged with Interior under a new Beria protege: Vladimir G. Dekanozov. To head the government, Beria chose Valerian Bakradze, who was removed as Premier in the purges of '37; Bakradze proved his loyalty by restoring the three Beria men purged by Stalin last year-Baramiya, Zodelava...
...Heavy trucks on the Autobahn between Berlin and West Germany were waved past Soviet check points that had once held them for days; locks on the Mittelland Canal, closed since last August for "repairs," were mended overnight...
...growth was due to World War II, when Thompson doubled its size almost overnight with a new $30 million government-built plant. But it was also due to the fact that engineer Crawford proved himself an expert manager. He brought in able young men, gave them room to grow, encouraged initiative. New President Wright, for example, started in with a Cleveland law firm as a legal consultant to Thompson, soon won a $100,000 tax refund for the company. Impressed, Crawford took him on as his own assistant when he became president, gave him ever-growing responsibility...
...Communists won 38% of the popular vote, he became Prime Minister. The next year, with Benes and Masaryk still in the government, Gottwald was playing the democratic, popular-front line; he tried to take Czechoslovakia into the Marshall Plan. He was summoned to Moscow and reprimanded, and changed course overnight...