Word: resort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chill statistics on unemployment rose in Detroit, the United Auto Workers' Boss Walter P. Reuther, 51, shivered at the thought of being seen or photographed at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council's traditional week-long session in a palm-fringed winter resort. But the 29 elders of the U.S. labor movement, more than half of them on the ripe side of 60, voted nonetheless to accept Puerto Rico's invitation to the glossy Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Still protesting, Reuther and his wife flew down tourist class; up forward in the first-class section...
...news of this journalistic invasion, Poet-Author Boris (Doctor Zkivago) Pasternak discreetly abandoned his dacha near Moscow for a Black Sea resort beyond camera or notebook range...
Barth's inquiring pastor had asked whether he should resort to prayer to ''pray away" East Germany's Communist government. Replied Barth: "Would you really take the responsibility of approaching the Lord with such a plea? Aren't you afraid that God might grant your request and that some morning you might wake up among those Egyptian fleshpots which symbolize the American way of life? We in the West have been struggling for many a year with the powers and demons that hover over the land of the 'economic miracle' [ meaning West Germany...
...some press accounts, the U.S. and Britain could not agree on what to do in the event of a new Berlin blockade. Columnist Joseph Alsop's declaration that the British were reneging on the idea of sending an armored column through to Berlin, even as a last resort, brought British Ambassador to Washington Sir Harold Caccia hustling into the State Department with a hard denial that Britain had done any such thing. Soviet radar jamming devices now all but rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that public discussion of blockade...
...that Colum rapidly proves himself to be an unmitigated liar and a compulsive thief. One of his pranks causes the death of Mrs. Belmore, a nasty brush with the police and the apparent ruin of his film career. Desperate, Margaret tries prayer to St. Anthony and, as a last resort, appeals to Father McBane, one of those all-wise priests so often found in contemporary British fiction...