Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Entertaining," says one diplomat, "oils the hinges of a man's office door It is true that the whole party round can be a wearing process, and many a diplomat, trapped in a wall-to-wall crush, has recalled wistfully how Andrew Jackson climbed out of a White House window during his own Inaugural reception in 1829 and hot footed it across the Potomac to Gadsby's Tavern "But sometimes," says U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Moors Cabot, "there is a direct payoff, with an immediate discussion behind the potted palms." Some recent payoffs along Washington...
...southern Kyushu island, a cotter pin apparently fell out of a coupling on a string of coal cars halted on a slight incline. One coal car rolled back down into the mine. Gathering speed, it flew off the track on a curve in the tunnel and struck the mine wall, showering the fatal sparks that ignited coal dust in a vast explosion. At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car. The loose lost wheel caused the last three cars to derail and sprawl across the adjacent track. Seconds later, alerted...
...refreshments downstairs was envisioned. The greatest changes will be downstairs, where the lobby next to the Blue Parrot will be made three times as large and the passageway to the Casablanca will be three feet wider, the new lobby will be paneled, and the entire downstairs floor covered with wall-to-wall carpeting...
...your country, children are killed in a church for the sole reason that their color is different," K. snapped back. Before anyone could make the obvious retort-that murder at the Wall, unlike murder in Birmingham, is an act of the government-Khrushchev was off on something else...
...office equipment, while the laggards have been the space and defense stocks. As of last week, brokers were generally bullish about many drug producers, airlines and electronics companies, and down on hotel chains, real estate firms, savings and loan associations. Perhaps it is time to be wary when most Wall Streeters start talking alike, and perhaps the market will take a beating if tax-cut hopes fail. But there is a consensus on Wall Street that the bull is strong and there is still plenty of margin...