Word: post
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aftermaths of last February's demise of the Saturday Evening Post was the fact that the Curtis Publishing Co. had no magazines at all, while the Post's sister publications, Holiday and Jack and Jill, were the property of a corporate hybrid called the Saturday Evening Post Co. Last week some semblance of the good old days was restored when Curtis reacquired Jack and Jill and Holiday. Simultaneously, there came an echo of the era when kids could earn roller skates, baseball mitts and bikes by selling Post subscriptions. Henceforth, announced the November issue of Jack and Jill...
...Cheka (secret police); during the civil war that followed, he distinguished himself as one of the founders of the Red armed forces, and in 1925 was appointed Commissar of War. Blindly loyal to Stalin, in 1935 he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and rose to the post of assistant chairman of the party's defense committee. With Stalin's death in 1953, he became President of the U.S.S.R., a post from which he was dismissed seven years later, after opposing Khrushchev's 1957 bid for power...
...State Department announced this week the appointment of Louis B. Sohn, Bemis Professor of International Law, as Connselor on International Law-a newly established State Department Post...
Finally, the man got out of his car, broke my car window with his hands and tried to drag me out of the car. A man who announced that I had insulted his wife, the post-debutante, by my remark about the naked chicken, threw a full glass of Scotch in my face and said, "What do we have to do to make you get out and fight...
...date got the license number of the car and we tried to get the cop directing traffic to come, but he would not leave his post. We went to the West Haven police station to report the incident. The officers were very sympathetic ("I'm sure they didn't go to Yale; probably didn't even go to high school"). A teletype to Hartford revealed that the car was registered in the name of an auto-leasing agency, which was closed. We returned to New York with the knowledge that the perpetrators of this deed would probably never be caught...