Word: welled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third meeting. The first, in September 1947, exhorted world Communism to fight the Marshall Plan; the second, in June 1948, disclosed that Tito was a Titoist. From 1949's meeting emerged a call for the "active fight of the revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have stated that...
...some such place as the revolving door of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, at one time or another, Suzy Stephenson might well have passed Cristina de Borbón. Suzy is a pertly pretty ex-model from Birmingham, Ala. Cristina, a long-lashed Spanish beauty who has 27 other given names, is a relative of the late Alfonso XIII. Both Suzy and Cristina were involved last week with rich South Americans named Antenor. Suzy was on her way in the door, Cristina...
Suggested one Bolivian, recalling that Cristina had once been voted the world's best-dressed woman: "Why not have all the well-dressed Congressmen vote for Cristina, and the shabby ones vote for Antenor...
...Please-no more," pleaded Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, who found his mail loaded with paperweights after the newspapers ran a story last month saying that he collected the things as a hobby. Among the whatnots he was sent by well-wishers: a weighted mahogany gavel, a glass basin filled with coins, a porcelain pig, a bronze nude in a bronze bathtub...
...Neale has no time for false modesty. He admits that his Philadelphia pro football Eagles are good-so good, he blandly says, that not a single member of Notre Dame's current glamour team could make his starting eleven. They were 1948 National Football League champions and are well on their way to repeating this season. This week, with a record of nine wins and one defeat, Greasy's nifty Eagles squared off against an old and bitter foe, the New York Giants...