Word: doublecross
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...gone to Turkey for the production of a huge new crop, to India, whose wheat harvest will leap 25% this year, and to Pakistan. If the winter rains are right, Pakistan will become self-sufficient in wheat next April for the first time. A new U.S. Department of Agriculture "doublecross" hybrid has made Kenya self-sufficient in corn. In Southeast Asia, the newly developed IR8 rice strain has been tested in Thailand, South Viet Nam, Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines and in some cases increased the annual yield twentyfold. The world's food experts are taking heart, though...
...them on sale for $3.33, turning a neat 900% profit for the Socialist mother land. In the Soviet Union, where selling Bibles can lead to banishment, Klavdia was just a little too avantgarde. By week's end Chikin could report in a follow-up story that the doublecross to dialectical materialism had been avenged. Klavdia was suddenly jobless...
...hard-bitten labor lobbyists bustled around Capitol Hill all session. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself stumped from office to office, making gruff demands for repeal. International Typographical Union President Elmer Brown even distributed copies of an Olympian ultimatum admonishing Congress: "Our patience is about exhausted with being doublecrossed. And the Senators ought to know that they cannot doublecross the labor movement again and get away with...
Lyndon's Turn. But when the showdown came, the committee was deadlocked once again, with Dodd and Javits both opposing Dirksen. "For Christ's sake, Tommy!" exploded Ev. "You said you'd give me your vote." A doublecross? "He just misunderstood me," said Dodd. "These things happen." As for promising committee action on the immigration bill, shrugged Dirksen, "that was just general conversation." In any case, Dirksen forced a one-week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well...
...leisure. This time the trick is trickier. The client is a toff London tough lodged in Dublin's Mountjoy penitentiary, and the price is 5,000 nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible explanation: he closely resembles a richer client of the Scarperer -a French desperado who has commissioned this elaborate plan to get himself off the Suretes most-wanted list...