Word: paperweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coffee table (Liberia), embroidered linen (Yugoslavia), cloisonne vase (Japan), Bible (Israel), a boxed edition of Don Quixote printed on and bound in cork (Spain), 100 cigars (Cuba). From Eelco van Klef-fens, the European Coal and Steel Community's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ike got a boxed paperweight made up of metal flags of Common Market nations. Though the other gifts were to be sent down to Washington, he said, "My son can carry this," and handed the paperweight to his aide, Major John Eisenhower. Of all the exhibits, the Czechoslovakian inspired Ike with the greatest animation. Wagging...
...Well, I mean, all kinds of interest-objects. Is that a paperweight on the mantel?" Vag said, as he advanced toward...
...paperweight?" Gorce echoed, increduously. "I never thought of it as such. I always considered it the meanings of life...
...Time to Love and a Time to Die (Universal-International) is an earnest pussyfooter, a film that timidly asks an important question and then cuts out its own tongue to avoid an answer. Taken from the paperweight novel by Erich Maria Remarque, A Time to Love flirts with a clutch of social issues-man's frequently contradictory loyalties to self, nation and fellow man-without ever coming to grips with any of them...
...weapon at him in the lobby of Havana's Hotel Lincoln was a tall young man in a leather jacket. "Fangio, you must come with me," he ordered. "I am a member of the 26th of July revolutionary movement." One of Fangio's friends picked up a paperweight and cocked his arm. The pistol moved alertly. "Stay still!" its owner said. "If you move, I'll shoot." Fangio went obediently to a waiting car and was whisked...