Word: yo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broken Yo-Yo. Each of the strikes was a local affair called by a local union leader anxious to assert his authority. Like children out to embarrass their parents in public, local leaders went much further than Reuther expected, as they wrangled with G.M. plant negotiators over 11,000 issues ranging from the utterly frivolous (time off for deer hunting) to the undeniably serious (job transfer rights...
...weapons that make Nikita Khrushchev such a formidable enemy is his extraordinary ability to mix threats of nuclear destruction with homespun homilies straight from the cracker barrel, all delivered with the jaunty air of a man who feels he has got the world on a string and enjoys yo-yoing it around. Last week, in a 4½-hour interview in his Kremlin office with New York Timesman Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Khrushchev was on top of the barrel...
...turning on alternate currents of bellicosity and reasonableness, Khrushchev had tried to play Western tensions over Berlin as he would (in the current Washington phrase) "with a yo-yo." But his freehanded game was clearly hampered by East Germany's troubles. The U.S. was determined to control its own response, not bounce up and down as Khrushchev wished. Off to Paris flew Secretary of State Dean Rusk, for a meeting of the Western foreign ministers at which free world diplomatic strategy is to be hammered out. As the talks began, it was clear that there would eventually be some...
...Brahms Liebeslieder in German, chansons in French, Bartok folk songs in Slovak, and even three folk songs in Japanese. The programs ranged from the 15th century to Copland, but the Japanese audience of 2300 persons seemed to like best the Club's spirited rendering of the Harvard fight song, "Yo Ho, The Good Ship Harvard." The visitors spent their nighs in Japan as guests at the homes of university students...
...reassure the U.S. top brass, Pak named a U.S. favorite as new Premier in General Chang's place. He is retired Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, 43, who as army chief of staff in May, 1960, pressured old President Syngman Rhee into resigning without a blood bath, then held the rioting students at bay until the nation calmed down. Song retired soon thereafter, has been studying politics and economics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Last month the junta generals called him back to South Korea to serve as the new regime's Defense Minister...