Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Volumes for cooks without time to shop and chop...
...stands was given by the Rockefellers, I would say to myself. The copper peace bell in the garden is made of the melted down pennies given by children all over the world, I'd mumble half-aloud. I would always know just where in the gift shop to find the colorful flags-of-all-nations combination paperweight and pencil holders...
...actually sit in on a debate, and play with the little dial on the chair that chooses a simultaneous translation of the proceedings in any of five official U. N. languages. Until I turned 14, I was pretty much a regular on the tour and in the gift shop...
...view from the gift shop was upbeat as could be. In addition to the aforementioned paperweight/pencil holder, they had big fat pens with the U. N. insignia on it, and little dolls from various nations, that all smile at each other. What I didn't realize was that it was 1972, and the U. N. had spent almost a decade waffling on Vietnam. Soviet Jewry, and most of the other major calamities then facing the world. But it didn't matter: I had the ideals of international cooperation drilled into me well...
...were told by our last president to keep our mouths shut" during negotiations. James Burke, chief shop steward of Local 26 and a member of the 1980 negotiating committee said of the last negotiating process...