Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in December 1956, when Batista was firmly ensconced as President of Cuba, and mainly occupied with doing what he could to bolster the sagging sugar trade, Dr. Fidel Castro and a group of his followers made the first landing on the coast of Cape Cruz. The august London Times, which is generally amused by furtive rebellions in South America, took advantage of the occasion to chuckle mildly at the insurgent invasion, and in its dryest patriarchal manner advised the rebels to put down their guns and go home...
Official Career. Sharing the legendary Armenian gift for trading, Mikoyan became Stalin's chief trade commissar at 30, overseeing not only Soviet foreign trade but also domestic distribution of goods. After World War II, he set up the Soviet economic apparatus for milking the captive nations of Eastern Europe. During the shifting struggle for power and survival after Stalin's death. Mikoyan shrewdly sided with Nikita Khrushchev when the other schemers from the old Stalin gang joined forces against the upstart. When Khrushchev won out, the wily Armenian emerged as No. 2 man, with the title of Deputy...
...wouldn't trade the new college's plan for anything Harvard has yet," Hunt concluded, "but I will look with great interest at the results of the program...
...critics in the weeklies did not present such a solid front. Life referred to J.B. as "a great play" and "a Broadway triumph." Newsweek found it "a burst of magnificent, enthralling theatre.... a newborn classic." Hobe Morrison, writing in Variety, the entertainment trade weekly, spoke of "this exalted drama" and lauded the performers, but hedged, "Whether the show is eloquent and inspiring, or just fairly impressive and remote obviously depends on the individual...
...become king despite himself stood at the top of his dangerous and difficult trade. It was difficult to realize that so grand a figure in the world should also have been so good and simple...