Word: threshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talks continued behind a wall of privacy calculated to give the participants a chance to thresh out their problems without distractions. At least once a day, Ike's deadpanned Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Macmillan's ebullient Pressman Peter Hope briefed newsmen at hectic conferences held in a Gettysburg gymnasium 25 miles away from Camp David. Reporters generally had to follow Hagerty and Hope to their hotel rooms for private briefings on what the other briefings had actually been about. Then they returned to the gymnasium for still more clarifying explanations-from each other. But gradually, despite...
Supposedly, people improve a great deal with the coming of the Christmas spirit. All this proves is that people are pretty poor news the rest of the time. And a walk down the block to the shopping area where people thresh about buying tokens of good cheer shows that they're not very wonderful during this time of year either...
...Church of Scotland kirk, a stout-armed Presbyterian shopwoman named Jenny Geddes hefted the stool she was sitting on and threw it at his head. That was in 1637, in St. Giles Church. Edinburgh. This week the Church of Scotland's General Assembly sat down in Edinburgh to thresh out a proposal that has already provoked an almost equally violent reaction from parishioners, press and clergy. The plan: 1) unite the Established Church of Scotland and the Established Church of England; 2) standardize the administration of their sacraments; 3) coordinate the Presbyterian and Episcopal governing bodies by appointing...
...pardon now"), Russia's First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan ("I believe the bells of the world should be tolled for the death of free speech in the U.S."), proposed to his city council that he and his wife be sent to Russia, where he and Nikita Khrushchev could thresh things out. The council declined...
Shuffle to Savagery. Tragedy begins trivially. A bombinating Fleet Street bounder-Tulbach Browne of the Daily Thresh-has come to report on Pharamaul, and by a familiar "liberal" reversal of traditional loyalties, he sees his own country automatically in the wrong. The truth, as he reports it to his paper, is that gallant young Chief Dinamaula is being frustrated by gin-swilling British officials. As a grand gesture, Reporter Browne provokes Dinamaula into asking for a drink at an all-white hotel. He is refused, and in his humiliation mutters something about his hopes of marrying a white girl...