Word: unwrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every Russian rejection of their proposals had been to fish out another minor concession or two with which to tempt Gromyko. Result was that by last week's recess, they had exhausted all the painless compromises the West had to offer, while Gromyko had barely begun to unwrap his stony-eyed alternatives...
...Soviet Sputnik more clearly last week than U.S. toymakers, who lost no time blasting off on an 18,000-m.p.h. orbit all their own. Looking ahead to Christmas, the toymen were already well-stocked with an arsenal of celestial hardware. They quickly launched a crash program to unwrap the stuff. "The second I heard about the Russian satellite," said one somber-voiced toyman, "I knew we had to move fast...
...hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled vials of alcohol...
Finding Congress in so sympathetic a mood towards defense needs, the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman went before the House Armed Services Committee to unwrap some of the Navy's ambitious dreams for the future. He was not begging money for next year's budget: he had in mind a $335 million construction program for the 1952 budget...