Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical story of a Communist dupe-and Thomas Mann had shown himself to be only too susceptible to the Communist shell game. The Warsaw Peace Conference had elected Dr. Mann to its presidium in absentia, and Mann had had to cable a protest and his explanation: he had written France's Communist Dr. Joliot-Curie refusing to attend the conference but expressing his sympathy for Joliot-Curie's efforts for peace. Mann had refused to sign the Stockholm petition, but had sent a recorded message to Chicage's Mid-Century Conference for Peace, taken over...
Lieut. Colonel William E. Bertram of Chicago was heating water on a gasoline burner-for a bath in the half-shell of a discarded belly tank. Bertram gave his story of last week's first big battle between the enemy's Russian-made MIG-15s and U.S. F-84 Thunderjets: "We were hitting a bridge halfway between Sinuiju and Sinanju. I saw a MIG on the tail of one of our guys and went to help and then four more MIGs went through me. I went up into the sun and skidded around and caught some more tracers...
While most of the nation's governors settled down to ponder and parley after their exertions, New York's Tom Dewey wound up and tossed a bomb shell. He hardly had time to draw a deep breath after his third inaugural before he gave the state a breath-taking demand for emergency powers in case of atomic attack or invasion. Dewey wanted stand-by authority to: make law by proclamation, seize private homes and property, conscript manpower, ration raw materials and finished goods, set up constructions priorities, fire any public officer who refused to obey his order (including...
Whether they believed it or not, happy French boxing fans elbowed into the Palais des Sports last week in sell-out crowds. Before the fight, Robinson outlined a watchful-waiting strategy: "In our last fight, Villemain just stayed in his shell [a crouching, bobbing, face-covered style]. The only time he opened up, I knocked him down. I'm just going to wait and see what he does, then cope with...
...coping took a little longer than Sugar figured. But by the fifth round Robinson's rapier left jab had jarred Villemain out of his protective shell, and in the ninth he put Villemain away with three sharp left-right combinations. This week, $17,000 richer, Sugar Ray set off on a final fling-a charity fight in Frankfurt-before loading up his entourage for the boat ride home...