Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Tower, suggested an appointment. Nixon left it to his staff to set up a breakfast date at 7:45 next morning, let it be known that he was delaying his scheduled departure from New York to keep the date. The upshot: Nixon and Rockefeller got together for breakfast (oatmeal for Nixon, ham and scrambled eggs for Rockefeller), cordially posed for photographs over the coffee cups (Nixon pouring...
...upshot of these efforts is that today, Wright insists, the Smith faculty is, excluding Radcliffe, "either first or right among the top group of all the women's colleges. In the four major departments [English, Art, History, and Government] it stands right...
...State Department for not following up U.S. business entries into Latin America with higher-type diplomacy, said as much in a report he forwarded to White House Chamberlain Harry Hopkins. Hopkins read the report, showed it to Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt asked the 32-year-old Rockefeller to visit him. Upshot of the call: Rockefeller's appointment as coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and the beginning of an intermittent 15-year government career...
...counting four for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack). But Goren, on the safe-side assumption that either North or South was void in clubs ("I had a strong suspicion my ace of clubs would not live."), refrained from doubling. Upshot: South made five spades, finessing West's king of hearts and discarding a heart on North's ten of diamonds...
...France itself, pro-Gaullist "Committees of Public Safety" had sprung up in more than 100 towns, and when Interior Minister Jules Moch telephoned provincial prefects to find out what they were doing to suppress the committees, many a prefect was inexplicably unavailable. Most shattering of all had been the upshot of Moch's efforts to put down the Corsican uprising. In defiance of a direct order, France's air force failed to provide transport to Corsica for 125 of France's "most reliable" cops, the black-helmeted troopers of the Compagnie Républicaine...