Word: union
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, the only audible answer to all these German overtures was a snarl of Communist fury. Standing in a drizzling rain to address an anniversary gathering of 20.000 people, Poland's Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz cried that Adenauer hopes "to drive a wedge between Poland and the Soviet Union." As for Adenauer's claim that Germany's final repudiation of Hitler was demonstrated by German cheers last week for Dwight Eisenhower, "the victorious army leader against Hitler's Germany," that, said Cyrankiewicz, was so much eyewash. The Germans who cheered Ike, he snapped bitterly, no doubt included...
Milk? "I get 750 gallons a year per cow," said Ukrainian Farmer Fedor Kozlovsky. "Not bad, but I'm doing better than that," said British Farmer Nye Bevan, who, with fellow Laborite Hugh Gaitskell, had turned up in the Soviet Union to reap some of the summer's bumper crop of Russian-grown political hay. "But you weren't overrun by Hitler," said Fedor. Said Nye: "Those were not cows that were overrun by Hitler...
...says that she never really wanted to pay the price that Hollywood demands for stardom ("You become everybody's personal property''), but by 1946 she was there, like a thousand others, sitting around on sets, earning little more than the right to join the extras union. She finally landed a meaty role in Champion, with Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman. The picture, says Lola, "set up Kirk and Ruth. Afterwards. I couldn't get a job. I went to New York to look for work on TV. Champion was playing on Broadway. There was my picture...
...Vice President of the U.S., Richard M. Nixon-Whittier Union High School, Whittier, Calif...
Yamasaki took advantage of a long convalescence to go to Japan. He was captivated by what he saw in its architecture: the interplay of light and shadow, the union of building and garden. He came back to cast a jaundiced eye on the serried ranks of glass boxes rising along the main streets of Manhattan and other major cities. "Our life gives promise of being spent in look-alike houses, look-alike automobiles and look-alike buildings," he warned his fellow architects...