Word: unpacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second phase, if it got that far, would presumably consist of a Russian attempt to "unpack the package" by throwing out a series of isolated counterproposals, each designed to catch the fancy of one of the Western powers and to horrify the others. (Example: an appeal for a mutual reduction of armed forces in central Europe, which would hold out to Britain the prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate...
...name. Says one Alabama lawyer: "If you have a good case, you don't have to worry. The judge will rule with you. If you don't have a case, you don't have to worry either. He'll throw it out before you unpack your briefcase...
...embarked on one of his most exacting assignments: photographing some of the great store of Chinese art masterpieces that have been hidden from the world for more than two decades. He had flown to Formosa after TIME Correspondents John Osborne and Curtis Prendergast arranged with Nationalist Chinese authorities to unpack their choicest works, as selected by art experts Dr. Wang Shih-chieh...
Every August the most fashionable of fashionable Parisians pack their race horses and head for a 1,000-year-old village on the Normandy coast, 120 miles away. In old Deauville (pop. 5,438) they unpack their purses at three luxury hotels, two race tracks, six nightclubs, a pair of golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a yacht basin, theater, music hall, polo field, clay-pigeon shoot and one of Europe's busiest and most sumptuous casinos. Says a French social commentator: "Deauville is to Paris what Pompeii was to Rome...
...moment she seemed half disposed to unpack then and there, and leave some of the excess baggage behind, but she finally took her son's advice. "I've packed enough stuff to last me a year," she sighed, as she paid...