Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bread Alone, which Khrushchev criticized in 1957 after it became a bestseller both in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., was not really such a bad book-said Khrushchev expansively, "I must say there are certain passages which deserve attention." Deputy Premier Mikoyan, he said, had first put him on to the book, pointing out that there were passages in it that the author literally took from Khrushchev. "Yes," said Khrushchev, Dudintsev had borrowed his own criticisms of Soviet bureaucracy in telling of the frustrations of an inventor trying to get his invention accepted, "but he exaggerated them too much...
...put out flags," cautioned Pinay. "All this is very fragile. Patience!" But he could not resist flying to Washington this week to announce proudly that France will pay up $118 million of its $2 billion debt to the U.S. before...
President Black, accompanied by his top aides, flew to New Delhi with fresh proposals aimed at a final settlement. If both sides could agree, the World Bank would help raise the estimated $600 million needed to put the plan into operation. One stumbling block is that India would have to put up a substantial part of the funds to build link canals and reservoirs in Pakistan to replace water that India diverted for itself. Still, as Black knew, New Delhi and Karachi are tired of a decade of bitterness, and some Indians and Pakistanis, watching Red China's actions...
...demand that the Assembly reopen the investigation and call in Scotland Yard. He expected to be voted down, which could have left the suggestion that the Assembly Bay Streeters were covering up for one of their own. Instead, the motion was passed, thus in effect telling Stevenson to put up or shut...
...Baby June eloped when she was 13 with one of the chorus boys, aged 18, outran Mama in a breathless chase to the honeymoon train. Big Sister Gypsy was booked by Mama in a Kansas City burlesque house, soon struck a jackpot at Minsky's in Manhattan and put up Mama in velvety splendor in a flat above the honky-tonks of 42nd Street...