Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some, confederation would have its temptations. By accepting it, the West would be promised abatement of Communist pressure on Berlin-at least until the Russians decided that such a promise belongs in the category of what Izvestia recently called "paper guarantees which have value perhaps only in history's dustbin." Confederation plays to the sympathies of those who, with vivid memories of two world wars, fear a rearmed and militarized Germany. It is a fear that disturbs not only Poles, Czechs, Frenchmen and Nye Bevan, but also distresses those who, like Konrad Adenauer, want safeguards on German militarism...
...Capote is about the size of Napoleon, only thinner. He was wrapped in an off-white, chart-paper tweed suit, with a striped shirt and a black bow tie slightly askew. He looks like a blond Mr. Peepers and talks like a Fleet Street 14-year-old whose voice is about to change. He manages, however, to live down both impressions...
...writes several drafts of each piece, the first couple in laborious long-hand. "When I reach the final stage, I always write on yellow paper. Then I know that I shall be unable to send it to any publisher, and it must be rewritten once more...
...LAST WORKS OF MATISSE (Harcourt, Brace; $32.50) is more of an event than a book, splendidly reproduces the entire output of Matisse's last five years, and proves that the "collages" of scissored and pasted colored paper he made in sickbed were a breakthrough to a new, intensely personal art form...
...points. It was the second largest number of issues traded in one day in stock exchange history (largest: 1,290 issues on Jan. 5, 1955). At day's end the market closed off 14.68 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, and $6.7 billion was wiped from the paper value of stocks on the exchange...