Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upstairs & Downstairs. Members of the U.S. colony in Budapest have dubbed the statue "the Tobacco Auctioneer." Hungarians say she holds the victory palm aloft because the grim, 18-ft. figure of a Russian soldier that stands below her on the pedestal might steal it. But these cracks fail to bother De Strobl. "The figure upstairs," he explains, "is international. The figure downstairs is Russian. Many Russians lost their lives here, after...
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had fun with the Danube last week. He swam in it, fixed Soviet trade domination over it and turned the Danube conference into a thoroughfare for Soviet propaganda. He was able to steal the show because the Western powers missed a tailor-made chance to unfold point by point Russia's responsibility for the grave economic plight of her satellites...
Instead, the Western nations let Vishinsky steal the show. They heard him make the fantastic charge that they were trying to treat the Danubian states "as a cook treats potatoes." That was too much for icy, pink Sir Charles Peake, Britain's delegate. Stung, but not exactly hopping, Sir Charles announced that he would reply to Vishinsky the next day. When Sir Charles was ready to speak, Vishinsky cracked that he was happy to note that the British representative "after 72 hours had gathered enough strength to answer...
Under John Bracken, the P.C.s had tried to stable western progressives in the same stalls with eastern arch-Tories. It did not work. They had ended with a lacklustre program, not liberal enough to steal votes from Mackenzie King, not conservative enough for right-wingers. Last week many Conservative bigwigs were pinning their party's main hopes on a tested Tory, big, handsome Premier George Drew of Ontario. So far, the only other contender in sight was Saskatchewan's John George Diefenbaker, Tory gadfly of Parliament...
Inman tried the same remedy on an eight-year-old boy, but it failed because he told somebody. So Inman instructed him to "steal a potato from his mother's store, halve it, touch each wart with the raw surface, 'and then bury the potato in the backyard by the light of the full moon - all in the greatest secrecy." Those warts went away, too. The doctor cured an adult of a shin wart by having him apply saliva with his finger...