Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confusion in Geneva. U.N. staffers scurried out of the first and second floors of the 20-year-old Palais des Nations to make way for the carpenters of the Big Four. Technicians uncoiled miles of signal wire, installed cable heads and rigged the automatic elevators so that no unauthorized person could step off at the Parley at the Summit...
...unknown person who shot and wounded Walter Reuther some years ago taken better aim, America would not now be headed straight down the drain. As a result of the recent negotiations, my present and future automobile will be British...
...nearly three hours Burdett-poised, precise, prissy-detailed his secret career as a Communist and a spy. He first worked with a Communist clique in the American Newspaper Guild, joined the party in 1937. "My whole life was in the party," he said. "I was an emotionally fanatic person." In January 1940 the party tapped him for espionage...
Nevertheless, in 1954 the U.S. consumed but 83 million bbls.-4,000,000 bbls. less than the alltime peak in 1947. In terms of per capita consumption, the dip is even sharper; beer sales last year were down almost 15% from the wartime high of 18.7 gals, per person. And beer is not the only beverage industry hit: hard liquor sales have slumped nearly 30% from the postwar high, to 1.18 gals, per capita. And sales of soft drinks are also down...
...warned Prime Minister Herbert Asquith more than 40 years ago, "brooks no delay"; only last month Queen Elizabeth herself was again promising "further consideration of the composition of the House of Lords," and as usual Everyone admitted that "something" ought to be done. Last week, the government-in the person of the Lords' Tory leader, the Marquis of Salisbury-moved that a committee be appointed to study what powers, if any, the Lords had to compel their members to attend sessions. Guy Fawkes and his powder barrels could not have created more alarm...