Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from two factories stayed home until 10:30 in the morning, found themselves locked out when they finally showed up for work. In restless Barcelona, where the Reds had hoped to put on their most impressive performance, even men on sick list went off to their factories. For one thing, at a time when the country's ailing industries were looking for every possible excuse to get rid of workers (it is against Spanish law to lay off workers, as well as to strike), no one wanted to take any chances. But the real reason went deeper. "A purely...
...long time had passed since he was the martyr "Convict 95" who set the crowds to screaming, "Up Dev! Up the Republic!" For one thing, he had insisted on tying to the presidential election "the Issue"-doing away with proportional representation, which, while giving minorities a voice in the Dail, tends to keep alive old animosities that should have long since become ancient history. "Get rid of the intrigous P.R.!" cried a member of Dev's Fianna Fail (Party of Destiny). "De Valera and Fianna Fail want dictatorship!" retorted the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) Party...
...gold crosses atop the Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never expected to see here," he said. "I hope it has meaning for the future." Russian tourists, gaping at paintings of Jesus Christ in the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Assumption, equally astonished him. "A tender, moving thing . . . Never, never did I expect to find this in the Kremlin...
...thing I can assure you," said Novelist-Playwright Graham Greene two years ago. "There will be no miracles in my next play." To the evident delight of first-nighters at London's Globe Theater last week, Roman Catholic Author Greene proved as good as his word. The Complaisant Lover, in a sparkling production directed by Sir John Gielgud, flaunted none of the theologizing that pervades The Living Room and The Potting Shed; not once were sin and grace wheeled explicitly into battle during a soul's dark night. Instead, Greene's latest is a secular "black comedy...
...week, the defense industry kept mum publicly. Privately, it reacted with surprise-and considerable anger of its own. In Pittsburgh, Reserve Army Colonel Willard Rockwell, who once took time off from running his three manufacturing companies to serve briefly as an assistant to the Defense Secretary, ridiculed the whole thing. Snorted Rockwell, whom Representative Santangelo listed as "suspect": "The White House has bought eleven of our Aero Commander planes. I can't even sell one to the military. How's that for influence?" When it comes to pressuring for contracts, he charged that the real big leaguers...