Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Departed for a holiday-season visit to his farm at Gettysburg, where he planned to combine rest with work on his State of the Union message...
...Ambassador in 1942, he saw the U.S. through seven other Presidents, three wars, depression and unprecedented prosperity. Last week, frail and bent at 70, Wilhelm de Morgenstierne, dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, on the eve of his retirement paid a farewell visit to an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. As he left the White House, Morgenstierne offered some advice about the nation he has watched through 47 years of trial and triumph. Said he: "Never lose faith in the U.S. as a leader of the free world. I don't think the U.S. is going to fail...
...from Kalinovka whom Stalin commanded to dance the gopak, the hayseed at whom Beria sneered years ago as "our beloved chicken statesman," "our potato politician." When Stalin put Nikita in charge of the Moscow party back in the '30s, Khrushchev used to don navvies' rough clothes, crawl down to visit the sandhogs tunneling out the new subway, take a hand with a pneumatic drill, and talk with the lads in the unprintable language for which, even in the Kremlin, he is famous. The palace courtiers dubbed him "Comrade Lavatory Lover" because Nikita not only insisted on equipping the Moscow metro...
...final vote all joined to censure the "antiparty group" except Molotov, who stubbornly abstained. Molotov, the last living collaborator of Lenin; Kaganovich, the first sponsor of Nikita's career; Malenkov, Stalin's designated successor?all were shipped off to obscure posts in remote areas. The dictator jounced off to visit the Czechs. In Slovakia, he airily dismissed the anti-party group: "As they say, a scabby sheep got into a good flock. We took the sheep by the tail and chucked...
...many doctors held out for the advantages of the old-fashioned home visit, pointing out that the family setting tells a great deal about the patient. Nearly all physicians try to avoid calling on obvious cranks, drunks who become remorseful in the middle of the night, and narcotics addicts; nearly all eventually make the call if there is any doubt in their minds as to the urgency of the case...