Word: walkout
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...Walkout in Reverse. On the appointed day, right on schedule, the spokesmen for 49 nations of the non-Communist world walked one by one to a bright yellow modernistic table on the stage and, using gold pens, put their signatures to the peace treaty. Last, clad in the only morning coat and striped trousers at the conference, came 72-year-old Premier Shigeru Yoshida of Japan. His face set, he scrawled his name in Japanese characters. A decade after Pearl Harbor, a generation after Japan began its career of aggression in Manchuria, almost a century after Commodore Matthew Perry opened...
...field marshal's walkout shocked the army. Two infantry companies surrounded Parliament and Radio Athens, tried to impose military censorship. But Athens, by & large, remained quiet. Papagos himself told the soldiers to return to barracks, and the King took over Papagos' title of commander in chief...
...starting TIME (with its "double-breasted seersucker" et al.) had to do it again by quoting Dan Parker's suggestions for the Russians who say they will compete in the 1952 Olympic Games [Parker samples: "the heel-and-toe walkout," "the running high dudgeon"-TIME...
Even troubled Central America had seen few strikes as cynical or strange. The walkout had nothing whatever to do with wages or hours. Union bosses called it, charging that the International Railways of Central America had refused to rehire seven workers previously fired for stealing, or to fire three superintendents (all Guatemalans) who were on the union's grudge list. The leaders launched the strike even before the U.S.-owned company's management could .reply to their demands...
...Prompting New York Mirror Columnist Dan Parker to suggest some new Olympic events. Samples: "the heel-and-toe walkout," "the running high dudgeon," "the erroneous conclusion jump," and "hurling the invective...