Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago we stood with our backs to the wall; now we hold the trump cards in the political game." With these proud words, Underground Leader Ramiro Prialé last week hailed the astonishing comeback of APRA, the left-wing party outlawed by Peru's government...
...idea of destiny as predestiny is an old psychological trump, but it still takes tricks, particularly when played by a master, in this case Director Leslie Norman, who produced The Cruel Sea. He manages to set the mood exactly-and somehow he keeps the audience from going claustrophobic in the cramped Dakota cabin. Best of all is the picture's sense-a very British sense-of straight-faced tease...
...Rescue. But at this critical moment Edgar Faure had a trump card to play: Habib Bourguiba. That afternoon, obviously at Faure's invitation, the swart Neo-Destour leader stalked into the Hotel Matignon, the Premier's residence. After being closeted two hours with Faure, Bourguiba came out smiling broadly, and issued an optimistic statement. Much heartened, the Premiers of France and Tunisia got to work again, and at 1:25 a.m. gave out the joyful word: they had reached agreement. Almost choked with emotion, Premier Ben Amar said: "This is our wedding day." Said Premier Faure: "We must...
...German President Theodor Heuss had signed the Paris accords, completing German action except for the formality of depositing the instrument of ratification. Secretary of State Dulles had sent a carefully worded message pledging the U.S. to "closest cooperation" with the new Western European Union. Faure played his trump...
CHRISTOPHER TRUMP...