Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phyllis McGinley's Sixpence In Her Shoe should be required reading for every Radcliffe student...
...launched a sharp, biting attack against him. He accused Khrushchev of trying to start a new "cult of personality." He cited Khrushchev's inability to control himself, his lengthy, "boring" speeches, his "naive provincial behavior," and his "provocative attitude" toward the Red Chinese. He described Nikita's shoe banging at the United Nations in 1960 as "harmful to the reputation of the Soviet Union throughout the world." And he raised the matter of nepotism. Khrushchev had proposed that his son-in-law, Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, be appointed to the Secretariat and placed in charge of agriculture...
...CULT OF PERSONALITY." He condemned it in Stalin, but he erected one around himself. His clowning, boorishness, shoe-pounding and endless references to buffaloes, wolves, tigers and housecleaners could at first be refreshing, in a weird way. But gradually Khrushchev became, in the words of the French Communists, "too Grand Guignol." Besides, he was stubborn and intractable. There were growing signs that the comrades were getting desperately tired...
Among the failures, happily, there are fascinations: Oswald's frowsy but amiable landlady, the enormously corpulent cabby who picked him up after the crime, the curly-haired, fine-featured shoe salesman who tracked him to the Texas Theater, the clean, sunny, comfortable ranch house where the killer lived with his wife and children. At one point the film reports without comment that only five hours before he killed the President, Oswald was telling a friend how much he enjoyed playing with his baby daughter...
...husband in show business, the other a husband in shoe business, but Elizabeth Taylor, 32, and Debbie Reynolds, 32, do have something in common: an ex-husband. They also managed last week to land in the same boat, the Queen Elizabeth, bound from New York to Europe. Hordes of reporters descended on Pier 92 as the shipmates came aboard: Debbie with Husband Harry Karl; Liz with 127 pieces of luggage, four children, and oh, yes, someone in dark glasses whom a newsman called "Mr. Taylor." Another asked Liz if she planned to meet Debbie. "I would have dinner," she replied...