Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rotating majestically"-what an apt description of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune [Dec. 8]. You can always read in John Cowles's paper about what's going on in Ceylon or Java, but who the hell ever knows what's going on in Minneapolis...
...ribbons, in the fashion of generals who have come to political power, President Chiang Kaishek, 71, the man who has guided the Republic of China's destinies for some 30 years, smiled broadly and spoke confidently of the years ahead. He scarcely glanced at a small scrap of paper holding his brief notes, as he addressed the 1,700 members of Nationalist China's Mainland Recovery Planning Board. He stood straight without leaning on the speaker's stand, occasionally sipped from a glass of boiled water...
Last week the Spanish borders were closed to all those named. A letter went out to each, inviting him to drop in at police headquarters at the earliest convenience. As the suspects arrived, each got two pieces of paper to sign. One contained the government's reckoning of his secret accounts, the other an agreement to bring the money home within 30 days. The police were always polite-but they were also deadly accurate. Said one man of his own account: "They had me down to my last centime...
With the aid of the local police laboratory, his bureau examined hundreds of violins brought to it by worried buyers. Most of the instruments had telltale modern coats of lacquer or labels with inks and paper of recent manufacture. In one violin, the police lab even found particles of nylon. A concertmaster brought Iviglia a "Stradivarius" (for which he had paid $13,000) with a label reading "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1703." Underneath, another label was found reading "Pietro Antonio della Costa, Treviso, Anno 1764." Both labels were false. A Swiss collector brought in a 1716 "Stradivarius" for which...
...armor-not of Roman soldiers but such as Cortes' men had worn when he brought the cross and sword to Mexico 435 years before. It was the annual Passion play* of Tlaltenalco, and there were tourists, who did not fail to note that Manuel's beard was paper. It came unstuck and fell off somewhere along his Via Dolorosa...