Word: putting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the intricacies of the party's machinery than any other man. The fact that he is no friend of the other G.O.P. candidate on the horizon. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (Hall clearly wanted the Republican gubernatorial nomination that went to Rocky last year), has put Hall even more solidly in Nixon's camp...
Either way, the European allies were hard put to conceal their current mutual distrust. On one side were what De Gaulle called the "Anglo-Saxons."* Britain's idea of its special relationship with the U.S. was keenly resented by De Gaulle and suspected by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The British, in turn, saw in the close alliance between Bonn and Paris and in the growing unity of the six Common Market nations a move to isolate Britain from the Continent...
...from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity was affronted when two French destroyers intercepted the West German freighter Bilbao and forced it to put into Cherbourg on the suspicion (unfounded, as it turned out) that it was carrying arms to the Algerian rebels...
This week, hobbling on a cane to prop a leg hurt on an Italian holiday last summer, the old Chancellor prepared to fly to London to persuade Britain that the Federal Republic has not put all its eggs in De Gaulle's basket...
...gift for San Marco. Everyone in the village would be given 25 shares of Bank of America stock, worth $1,200, with annual dividends running to $80 or more. Said Joseph: "We felt that giving them stock, so they would get a dividend check every quarter, would put joy in everyone's heart." Argued Victor: "Then we thought that because of America's trouble with Russia . . . this might be a pretty good move. Because if Italy went Communist, the whole of Africa would be open to Russia." He added: "If these people hang onto their stock, it will...