Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Recalling his widely quoted threat that Communism will "bury" America, Khrushchev says that he did not actually mean that the Soviet Union will triumph over the U.S., but that "the working class of the United States would bury its enemy, the bourgeois class." He offers surprisingly little hope for truly...
The fine art of being a Royal these days consists largely of knowing how to say the right thing at the right time. Speaking at the annual dinner of the Pilgrims, an Anglo-American society, in London, Britain's Prince Charles tried to keep a straight face while defending...
Each of the Hollywood oldtimers was a veteran of the bad old days when onscreen kissing was a pretty close-mouthed business and cinematic adultery seemed something like bundling. Yet they expressed somewhat disparate views of the unbuttoned mores of modern movies. "Call me a prude or a square," said...
Profile, smile, voice, build−the man fairly vibrates with star quality, yet here he was rehearsing merely as Narrator for a performance of Dickens' A Christmas Carol being staged by the Robert F. Kennedy Theater for Children. Naturally he would have preferred a juicier role−Scrooge, for...
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