Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some neutral countries-maintained minimum forces in West Berlin." Scarcely had Khrushchev said it when Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt rejected the "offer" out of hand. It was, declared Brandt, no more than a scheme to get Soviet troops into West Berlin and "cook the city over a slow fire...
Next day Communist-led mobs burned Nasser in effigy in Baghdad's main street. When the body of Kamil Kazanchi, the Communist lawyer executed in Mosul, was brought to the capital for burial, a funeral procession six miles long wound like a slow river through the city center. Behind the coffin marched Iraqis who short months ago acclaimed the dictator of the Nile their idol, and now shouted: "Death to Nasser! Death to Nasser...
...meeting took place on an August day in 1957. Michiko, then 22, had grown into a young woman who moved with fluid grace, spoke in the soft, cultured tones of a Sacred Heart graduate, had quick, attentive eyes and a slow, demure smile. She radiated a maidenly appeal rather than sexiness, and there was the fascinating impression of a number of locked doors lying behind her reserved manner...
Events in Europe were on the move last week, not in the oscillatory way that made up-and-down crisis headlines, but with a slow-steady movement that left things not as they were. To those who watched only the headlines, Khrushchev lowered his pistol, but did not put it away. To those who kept their eyes only on the official documents that passed back and forth between capitals, there was no change at all in Russia's basic, unacceptable terms; there was only a new hint, reversing Khrushchev's previous stand, at a willingness to hold four...
...slow-steady forward movement of the week was this: in Washington, London, Bonn and Paris, diplomats concerned were now convinced that a Foreign Ministers' conference will be held, probably in Geneva, and that it will begin, if Russia agrees, on May 11. It might last several months, and take up the whole German question ("Agenda isn't important," said one top Briton. "Once people get together, they usually discuss anything they want to"). It would probably fail...