Word: unraveler
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During the next few weeks at Geneva, while Secretary of State Dulles is trying to unravel the West from the tangles of the Soviet's new grip in Egypt, the Administration at home ought to face up to the causes of this situation. It should create a separate technical assistance agency, ultimately responsible to the Secretary of State, but with an administrator who has both responsibility and authority for all phases of the program. Then the United States could take a firm and unconfused stand regarding technical aid with underdeveloped countries such as Egypt which try to play off West...
...themselves who will be France's next Premier,* Pierre Mendès-France last week blithely shook up his Cabinet for the fifth time and announced crisply: "Now the real work begins." By this he meant applying himself to his favorite subject, economics, and his declared intention to unravel France's knotted economy...
When Joan Greenwood opened on Broadway in The Confidential Clerk most critics were so anxious to unravel the play's meanings that they relegated Miss Greenwood to their 20th paragraphs. Shortly afterward, Audrey Hepburn came to town in a less murky production and had every reviewer reduced to ardent grovelings. It never seemed quite fair...
...life. It is impossible to be completely candid. It's an art and it takes technique, and you have to learn it. If you've lived a life that isn't free and open with people, it's almost impossible to unsnarl it, to unravel the ball of twine...
When Harry stops playing it doggy dog, he and The Prospect Before Us unravel fast. A young Negro girl from a civil rights association maneuvers him into renting her a room in the Green Glade. As if on cue, the Jakes. Gils and Morrises, the banks and realtors all land on Harry: so do fragments of his own hotel tiles, loosened by an unfriendly hand. Stubborn Harry doesn't scare, but all he can salvage from his tiny, crumbling domain is a brief, implausible love affair with the Negro girl. Reverting to me-first principles, he sets fire...