Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain of Allied bombs and felt the walls of his terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together, and the final dispatch of their bodies to Valhalla in the flames of a funeral pyre wrote a tawdry Wagnerian finish to the evil story...
...with arms if we refrained from criticizing her attitude in North Africa, which was another way of saying that we should abandon our Arabism . . . shut our eyes to massacres . . . The United States only gave us promises, making it a condition that we should sign a mutual-defense agreement or pact . . . The United Kingdom said she would readily supply us with arms, but she has only sent us very small shipments...
...press was loud in praise of Adenauer. But Adenauer was busy denying that Moscow had weakened the West's position while the Kremlin's men worked at forcing some more blood from West German fingernails. They sent Premier Grotewohl & Co. back to Pankow with a pact declaring East Germany's full sovereignty. The Russians, of course, would keep their troops there "as a temporary measure...
Protagonists in this painful tale are a Pulitzer Prize playwright, an oh-so-Marilyn-Monroe-like Hollywood star, and a plain young man of almost no attributes who attains great success in love and literature through a pact with the devil--in the guise, as one might have guessed, of his Hollywood agent. Axelrod's fumbling attempt to give the thing a measure of significance in the last act adds considerably to the burden of the performers, who have a hard enough time making anything of their lines during the first two-thirds of the play...
Italian Flirtation. In Italy, distensione meant a continuing flirtation with the notion of an "opening to the left"?an alliance between Christian Democratic center parties and the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists, who still refuse to break their "unity of action" pact with the Communists. The Reds, oozing good-fellowship, as much as implied that "the spirit of Geneva" required all parties to get together. Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed are still the Communists' best asset, but according to a series of tables euphemistically described as a "plan" by Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni, jobs could be found for them...