Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...host at dinner in the British Embassy. Truman came to the Churchill party from a fund-raising dinner where he had already faced seafood in aspic, petite marmite, filet mignon, stuffed artichokes, potatoes au gratin, chiffonade salad and baked Alaska. Somehow the President managed to make a respectable stab at the Embassy's consomme, Dover sole, saddle of veal, potatoes duchesse, cauliflower and charlotte pralinee. It was at this semipublic occasion-there were 16 British and American officials present-that Secretary of State Dean Acheson chose to lecture the Prime Minister on Britain's lackadaisical attitude toward...
Speaking before the American Association for the Advancement of Science on December 28, Mather clatured that the two McCarran-sponsored laws had dropped "a red tape curtain" around the United States. This was an obvious stab at McCarran's controversial immigration act which compels everyone entering or leaving the United States to swear that he is not a communist, anarchist, fascist, criminal, prostitute...
...decision of the faculty to cut out 15 hours room permission constitutes a stab in the back to the student body. The student Council is guilty in that it has failed in its role as spokeman for the student by consenting to a decision in which undergraduate opinion was not even polled...
Slow Burn. In Evansville, Ind., after being treated at the hospital for a stab wound which he said his wife gave him, William Barrett went home, returned a few hours later with another stab wound, explained that his wife was "still angry...
...After the Nixon broadcast and before Eisenhower came on to speak, we watched one of the most curious performances in recent campaign history. George Bender, the chairman . . . called for those who would support [Nixon] and there was an animal roar from the hysterical crowd ... It was like a 'stab-in-the-back' rally at the Berlin Sportpalast or the fine justice of the People's Court in one of those East European countries." Thus Max Lerner likened 15,000 Ohio Republicans to Nazis...