Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said one member of the U.S. delegation: "You know, you sweat like hell, cable like hell, lobby like crazy in the corridors-and then it's finally all over and it doesn't mean a thing. This resolution was so meek it wouldn't have scared Louisa May Alcott. By abstaining we pleased the Arab bloc, and at the same time we didn't get De Gaulle sore. We just hope to God he starts negotiating with Algeria...
Give Them Air. About the only thing that the M.P. can call his own is a single locker that is not even big enough to hold an ordinary briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check their swords outside. If a Member has a secretary (whose salary he pays himself), he applies to the sergeant at arms for a place where she can work. This might turn out to be in one of the palace's three "secretarial rooms," where 40 or more girls...
...participating nations jockeyed for bigger shares of the fat engineering contracts. But the scientists, including Communist Yugoslavs, worked in amity. At CERN there were no weapons projects and no problems of national security. "Any scientist can work here, help himself to our blueprints, take pictures of any damn thing around here," says MacCabe. "Nothing is secret...
...ingenuousness of the grown-up little girl who never stood on a Broadway stage until two years ago. "She'll be a grande dame of the theater by the time she's 40," says Director Penn, "but today she's marvelously uncivilized. Just about the only thing she couldn't do is a comedy of manners-and that's because she doesn't have them...
...sister's wedding anyway; she read the play and decided that she would impress Coe, not by acting, but by being Gittel. "I made sure he found me with one shoe off, scratching my foot," she recalls. "And when I got inside his office, the first thing I said was, 'Where's the John?' It was just the sort of thing Gittel would have said. I didn't have to go, really, but I went. He asked me to come back the next...