Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes of dickering, the "unity of action" pact was a thing of the past, but Socialist-Communist collaboration was not. Instead Nenni and Togliatti had worked out a "new form" of relationship -another written agreement calling for "close consultation between the Socialist and Communist Parties both at the summit and at the base...
Next day the Daily Mirror's irrepressible columnist, Cassandra, described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, scent-impregnated, chromium-plated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love" and declared that "he is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter . . ." The Sunday Pictorial ran a story headlined MY LOVELY BOY, by "Momma Liberace," and printed a picture made up half of his face, half of hers...
...Florida, and unexpectedly flamboyant; Monday, the lush, velvety valleys, red barns and wind-stroked corn fields of Wisconsin; Tuesday, the tall towers of Minneapolis, rising sharply from the prairie and gleaming in the warm sun; old, mellow St. Paul with its distinguished piles of Victorian brick and stone on Summit Avenue, where Scott Fitzgerald lived...
...distract him was his African drums." Handicap Game. In Tokyo, preparing to pay a bet lost on the U.S. All-Star baseball game, Stars and Stripes Employee Don Schuck went into training for ten days, lost 8 Ibs., then golfed his way through wind, sleet and hail to the summit of Mount Fuji (12,389 ft.), losing 27 balls, taking 1,275 strokes, and after 10 hr. 50 min. holed out into the mountain's 2,000-ft.-wide crater...
...Summit...