Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell is going to fight the next war? Those unsophisticated Soviets will not be deterred by the peace sign...
...China tour, former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was watching a demonstration of Chinese army marksmanship at a base 60 miles northeast of Peking. Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, traveling with him, started when he heard the strains of the Internationale break out on camp loudspeakers-in China, a sign that something important was to be announced. Before leaving, Schlesinger leaned over to Schecter and whispered the news of Mao Tse-tung's death. Reports Schecter: "I couldn't believe it. Then I looked at Schlesinger's face, and I knew it was true...
COMMON SITUS. In 1975 Ford gave public promises and firm private assurances to his Labor Secretary, John Dunlop, that he would sign the "common situs picketing bill," which would permit a single construction union to shut down an entire building site. But he gave in to great pressure from construction contractors and Republican leaders and vetoed the measure. With that, Dunlop resigned...
...first, it appeared to French police like a case of straightforward, though exceptionally grand larceny. Early last July, Hervé de Vathaire, 49, the chief accountant of France's huge Dassault conglomerate, strolled into the Banque Nationale de Paris and signed a withdrawal order on the personal account of his employer. The sum was unusually large: 8 million francs ($1.6 million) in 500-franc notes. Still, no one at the bank thought to question De Vathaire as he lugged two big suitcases out of the bank; after all, he had long been empowered to sign Industrialist Marcel Dassault...
...press conference, Keating spoke of nameless middlemen who turned up at his cottage to buy fakes for ten or 20 pounds, which, signed, turned up in galleries with fancy provenances. "Did you know it is an art trade practice to sign paintings?" he charged. "There must be someone who goes round the galleries once a month called Jim the Penman...