Word: showdown
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Night before the showdown debate last week, Scarborough's hotel lounges were like death cells. Instead of the usual noisy, bantering throngs, groups in corners whispered: "Gaiters* has his resignation already written." Next morning, as delegates swarmed into the hall, knives were out, and Gaitskell on the platform was as hemmed in by intimate enemies as Caesar among the Roman senators. It was hard to say which was the stronger mood -Ban the Bomb or Gaitskell Must...
That same night, wandering onto a TV panel show, Castro, 33, called Kennedy, 43, and Nixon, 47, "ignorant, beardless kids." His eleven days in Manhattan had brought the showdown with the U.S. much closer. The U.S. embassy suggested to the 4,000 U.S. citizens still working in Cuba that they would be "prudent" to send home their dependents, and the State Department advised Americans not to visit Cuba...
...drive a wedge into the NATO powers, who would have to line up on different sides of such a resolution. Ham marskjold gambled that the Russians would extract every possible drop of propaganda advantage from their bluster but that they would not oppose the African states in a showdown-and perhaps he got a wink that told...
...open intervention in politics, which evoked uneasy memories of his headstrong father, ex-King Leopold, King Baudouin had aroused the resentment even of politicians opposed to Eyskens. At week's end, playing for time, Eyskens promised a Cabinet reshuffle, called Parliament back into session for a showdown confidence vote this week...
...rigors of the trials were over, the showdown at Rome was still a fortnight away, but the U.S. Olympic men's track and field team was in no relaxing mood. The big idea at the final tune-up meet at California's Mount San Antonio Col lege, explained Hammer Thrower Hal Connolly, was "to go over there to Rome with something to scare 'em with." The scare was there: in one evening the U.S. stars broke four world records and tied two more...