Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scraps of Paper. West Berlin, said Ike in his speech draft, is not just a city 4,000 miles away-seven hours by jet flight-but is the symbol of the free world. Khrushchev's talk-threat to renounce the Big Four agreements and impose a new blockade fitted Lenin's definition that "promises are like piecrusts, made to be broken." Free men have died before for so-called scraps of paper that represented duty, honor and freedom. Said Ike: "Let the Soviets remember...
...birth, the midwife had ready a piece of wet paper; if the father approved, she would stifle the unwanted infant...
...nails, smokes, wears a wristwatch, Western dresses, nylon stockings and high heels. She may live in an apartment house that has also radically changed Japanese life. Formerly, a wife was chained to her home, not only by her duties, but by fear of fire if the wood-and-paper house was left unattended. Rice cooking used to take an hour before serving; now the housewife merely fills an electric rice cooker (cost $10) and turns a switch...
...business reasons, insist that they attend numerous geisha parties, where much of the nation's business is still transacted. In the geisha houses, the jokes and sake drinking have not changed in a thousand years. Tipsy politicians and businessmen play such children's games as "scissors, paper, rock" or the passing of lighted tapers until they go out, to determine who must drink penalty cups of sake. When not being pinched or fondled by male guests, the modern geisha sings, plays the samisen or unexpectedly breaks into a rumba, spins a Hula Hoop or blows a saxophone...
Jorge Alessandri, Chile's industrialist-President, is determined to run his country on the same hardheaded business principles that he formerly used to run its prosperous paper monopoly. Last week a broadside bill giving Alessandri absolute control of Chile's economy for one year sailed through the Senate and headed back to the Chamber of Deputies for approval of its Senate-added amendments...