Word: windup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the titanic weariness of delegates, the 21-nation Paris Peace Conference headed into its final week. In a slogging windup of committee work (before sending treaty texts to plenary sessions), Paris diplomats had argued and counter-drafted till sunrise, two nights in a row. On the third night, grappling with the economic clauses of the Balkan treaties, they reeled off 17 hours of continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted...
...anybody's count, a lot of people. For five hours they lined both sides of the river, watched as the Army, Navy and Coast Guard put on a stunt series, heard the Port of Boston band (also working gratis) make music. The windup was a fireworks display, which the Herald bought at half price. Hits of the show: the Army's jet-propelled Shooting Star, a Coast Guard breeches-buoy rescue of an Old Howard burlesque dancer, Lotus DuBois. During the excitement 29 people were pushed into the Charles...
...football windup-the 11th Airborne Angels v. the Honolulu All-Stars-a dead-eye quarterback named Mel Malloy (from Chicago's Austin High) stole the show. In a drizzling rain he pitched two touchdown passes for the triumph (18-0) over the Jock Sutherland-coached Honolulu eleven...
...windup to a buffet lunch came the ice cream. The Burmans ate their ice cream with dignified avidity. Shyly they intimated that they would like more. Three times urgent messages went to the galley for extra helpings. By then everybody was very jolly. After more conferring, Sir Reginald called the first meeting: "Very encouraging...
...adjudged (by 11-to-1 vote of a California jury) the legal father of auburn-haired Joan Berry's 18-months-old daughter, Carol Ann. One juror's reason: "Mr. Chaplin overacted on the witness stand when he turned toward us and tried to charm us." This windup of the two-year court battle satisfied nobody. The comedian remained unconvinced, and blood specialists back him up. His ex-protégée considered the $75 a week awarded her for Carol Ann's support "ridiculous"; she had asked for $1,500 a month. Her lawyer, awarded...