Word: peakedness
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Trade agreements and low tariffs have been, since the war, like aging beauties who come away from each face lifting looking not better, but only a little more peaked. After almost six years of Congressional mauling, the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act is expiring in a final battle by the Administration...
Since West Germany has no army, there was no semblance of a military funeral. The handful of old Wehrmacht officers who appeared wore top hats instead of their high-peaked military caps. Instead of a gun-carriage, a common horse-drawn hearse carried the coffin. Said Dr. Ernst Strasser, the...
Commissar. Born the son of a miner in the tiny Ukrainian village of Kalinovka, Khrushchev is what the Communists call a Vydvizhenets, one who is "pushed forward." As commissar for metropolitan Moscow, he no longer affects a worker's peaked cap, but still orates in the rough accent of...
WHEN Jung is not pondering the relation of modern man to his soul, he is apt to be found sailing a small ketch on the Lake of Zurich, or reading an endless chain of violent detective stories, sometimes at the rate of one a day. Though his large, snow-peaked...
More, Please. Instead of boarding their prize in Treasure Island style, the pirates ordered the Wing Sang's skipper aboard their ship. He was greeted by a raffish crew of about 70 young Chinese in faded khaki and peaked military caps, and with Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers...