Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman," cried Georgia's plain-spoken Carl ("Swamp Fox") Vinson, "this is the first time in my 44 years as a member of Congress, 25 years as chairman of committees presenting defense legislation, that I have seen a matter involving our national security become a subject of partisan politics...
...first family), or in Florida (of a bourgeois family). Best of all. Suzy was always known in Hollywood and New York as a confirmed bachelor girl. "I think you can love a man more when you aren't married to him." she said thoughtfully. "I've seen the little things that were precious become the big things that destroy. I doubt if I shall ever marry...
Principle v. Tactics. This was stirring stuff, bui whether it would stir any vast number of Frenchmen up that hard but beautiful road was still to be seen. After the first wave of gratitude at a firm hand. French politicians were already beginning to like the thought of the politics that would be resumed when De Gaulle relinquishes his temporary mandate. On the far left, tubby Communist Boss Jacques busily trying party as the voice of "the republican masses," opened a drive for a popular front to defeat De Gaulle's proposed constitutional reforms. (After a long, nervous...
Typing Trouble. In Paris the junta's resolution was seen for what it was: open defiance of De Gaulle's authority. Deliberately misinterpreting De Gaulle's speeches, the junta expressed its delight "at having been able to obtain the promise of total integration of Algeria into Metropolitan France." In an excess of arrogance, the resolution went on to demand "the disappearance" of political parties in France, and the formation of "a genuine government of public safety...
...head of the state bank? "Now you are interfering in our internal affairs," grinned Khrushchev. ¶ How about Malenkov, supposedly managing a hydroelectric station in eastern Kazakhstan since his downfall last June? "You can buy a ticket and go visit him," shrugged Khrushchev. "I have not seen him in a long time, but the last time I heard, he was alive and well." What about the story that Malenkov had been injured while hunting? "Malenkov." said Khrushchev firmly, "is not a hunter. Furthermore, this is not hunting season...