Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranging from a big collective-farm chairman to the boss of all Soviet farming, Acting Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich, 45, a suave, shaven-headed Ukrainian henchman of Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Under the influence of Iowa's warm welcome and 90° heat, they quickly melted, shed their dark jackets, switched to shirtsleeves, straw hats and smiles. When someone complained about the heat, Matskevich stole Iowa's favorite reply: "Yes, but it's very good for the corn...
...Ambassador William Howard Taft III, lunched with President Sean O'Kelly and admired the Dublin statue of Cú Chulainn. the legendary Irish hero. Paris provided the most unusual welcome, however. As the Wagners arrived at Orly airfield, several young girls pushed through the crowd of officials and shed their coats to welcome the mayor in skimpy red, white and blue bathing suits. "Salut, Monsieur le Maire," they screamed, then rushed to cuddle Wagner for the photographers. Mrs. Wagner quickly sized up the situation, firmly disengaged her astonished husband and led him away while gendarmes shooed off the girls...
...dock a cheering mob swept him up and carried him to the customs shed. From a shaky platform, Bourguiba declared: "Today we have become masters of this land...
Dropping in at a U.S. base on Okinawa, General Maxwell D. Taylor, 54, commander in chief of U.N. forces in the Far East, soon shed his stars, leaped into some shorts, was a study in muscular alertness as he awaited the serve of his tennis opponent. Later this month, he will shift his strategy to Washington, where he will take over from retiring General Matthew B. Ridgway as Army Chief of Staff...
Interviewed on CBS's Person to Person, grand old (75) Actress Ethel Barrymore, whose autobiography, Memories, is a bestseller, dredged up an offbeat memory of Calvin Coolidge, shed possible light on why Silent Cal customarily displayed all the spontaneous gaiety of a Vermont blizzard. Leaving the White House after a unilateral chat with Coolidge, Actress Barrymore, in stitches from laughter, was confronted by perplexed newsmen wondering what was so funny. Recalled Ethel: "And I said. 'Something the President just said.' And they all fell flat on their faces ... He really had made me laugh very, very much...