Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grinding Out Letters. To be sure, there was a degree of haste. Partly, it was prompted by news that the National Rifle Association had begun grinding out letters to its nearly 1,000,000 members, telling them to write Congressmen and Senators immediately but not to use "abusive or threatening" language...
...summoning Brandt to East Berlin, the Soviets served notice that they will use their influence to frustrate Bonn's efforts to enjoy better relations with other Communist states until Bonn extends its desire for détente to Ulbricht's fiefdom. The West Berliners blame Russia as well as Ulbricht for their plight; an angry crowd of them marched on the Soviet memorial in the British sector, only to be turned away by bayonet-wielding Russian soldiers. Radio Moscow beamed some advice to West Berliners: "He who lives on an island must be friends with...
Margaret Fishback, advertising copywriter and author of light verse, commented on a call by Yakov A. Malik, Russia's permanent representative to the U.N., for an agreement outlawing military use of the world's sea beds...
...company's painstaking approach to toymaking began in 1880 in the Giengen dressmaking shop of Margarete Steiff, Hans-Otto's great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood, Margarete happened on the idea of fashioning toy elephants from scraps of felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made...
...Senator Joe McCarthy has been dead for eleven of them. Lawyer Roy Cohn, now 41 and more a New York business entrepreneur than an attorney, still has some sharp questions and deft answers. In McCarthy, a loyal but stubbornly wrongheaded book, the Senator's onetime lieutenant tries to use those questions and answers to memorialize his old boss as a "courageous man who fought a monumental evil"-a feat that just might, of course, extend a little virtue-by-association to himself...