Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev and to warn him against miscalculating U.S. determination in the cold war. He knew beforehand that Khrushchev was tough-but only at Vienna did he discover how tough. "The difficulty of reaching accord was dramatized in those two days," he says today. There was no shouting or shoe banging, but the meeting was grim. At one point Kennedy noted a medal on Khrushchev's chest and asked what it was. When Khrushchev explained that it was for the Lenin Peace Prize, Kennedy coldly replied: "I hope you keep...
...must congratulate you on your excellent coverage of the current crop of children's books ["The Condemned Playground," Dec. 15]. However, it was the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe who was responsible for the "one-woman population explosion," and not Old Mother Hubbard, whose crimes would more appropriately be brought before the Anti-Cruelty Society...
...Mother Hubbard went to her shoe...
Although her own life revolved around the stage and music, Miss Sayre found time to associate with a somewhat bizarre though terribly shoe group. One of her close friends "went to Dylan Thomas' funeral in tight black silk, veiled, and jet earringed, weeping because she never met him." Another grew trees in her room. (A Harvard acquaintance built a fine rampant peacock out of tinker toys as a woman-substitute.) She and her friends "detested" normal girls who wore cardigan sweaters and could discuss sex calmly...
...before simmering down to 729.53 at week's end. But while the nation's big businesses rejoiced in this burst of sunshine, a small Los Angeles retailer voiced a plaint from the shady side of the economic street. Said Max Goldstein, owner of a four-store shoe chain: "I think this 'recovery' is bypassing most of us small businessmen...