Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, knowing that Williamson's increase in production to an estimated $24 million a year (12% of all diamond sales) would be a real threat, the cartelists thought it time to get the lone wolf back into the pack. Another rumored reason: the cartel had been pouring capital into gold mines, and might well have been short of cash to support the diamond market in a price break. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's son Harry flew to Williamson's mine in Tanganyika to lure him back. But Williamson, a diamond-hard bargainer, could not be cracked. So tough...
...fast-talking executive wound up his pep speech to a group of aspiring advertising copywriters by holding up a pack of "Sweet Caporal" cigarettes...
...three men up for promotion could get permanent positions. As fate had it, the two men given notice. Alan Sweezey and J. Raymond Walsh, were the two outspoken liberals in the department. All the anti-Conant sentiment of the time was unleashed, with the extreme left leading the pack with shouts of "academic freedom." Denounced on this ground. Conant only dug himself in deeper when he stated that the decision was reached solely "on the basis of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Since both the men were known as excellent teachers, undergraduates raised a hue and cry about the University...
Nonetheless, over the past five years things have gone from bad to worse in Rumania. Last January, for the second time since the Communists took over, there was devaluation of the currency. Money which could have bought a pair of shoes suddenly dropped to the value of a pack of cigarettes. The time had come to dim the spotlight on Soviet power, and to divert unrest by playing up nationalism. Last week Ana Pauker was quietly dropped from the roster of secretaries of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Politburo. Along with her went Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu, both...
...moved by the magnificent courage of this stubborn and sensitive man, who refused to die to please Stalin, who built a new life, threw it away to atone for his past, and found it again. May it inspire others who until now have feared the wolf-pack of the anti anti-Communists to come forward to testify to the truth...