Word: threshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misrepresented as a revival of Western colonialism in economic form. Dulles favors expanding NATO's political instead of its economic role. He would set up a sort of super-Atlantic political standing committee, where "people of stature" second only to the foreign ministers would meet regularly to thresh out such divisive issues as Cyprus. North Africa and the Middle East. He proposed the appointment of "three wise men" to study the idea...
...would need all his prestige. In the south, extremists led from Libya by Salah ben Youssef and backed by Egypt defied the new nation's authority, organized sporadic terror bombings against the Neo-Destour leadership. Next week Tunisian delegates headed by Bourguiba himself will fly to Paris to thresh out the final terms of "interdependence" with France...
...canceled checks (item: $2,400 for a year's window cleaning at his Westchester County mansion). Asked about a string of checks he wrote to buy arch supports, Manville, ever the butt of his own gags, explained: "I got fallen arches carrying my first bride over the thresh-old." Meanwhile, Playboy Spreckels and San Francisco's Polyclinic Hospital were sued for $60,000 by an ex-Hollywood dancer named Georgia Asper. Her charge against Spreckels (who did 25 days of jail time last November for clouting his fifth wife, sometime Actress Kay Williams, with her jeweled slipper): "Indecent...
Dear Time-Reader: One of the great means of mass communication in these times is the institution known as the convention. Every year some 10 million Americans go to conventions to exchange ideas, thresh out problems, see new products, hear of new discoveries...
...delegates had dispersed into committees to thresh out compromises when a U.S. Congressman from Pittsburgh, James G. Fulton, 51, strolled into the bar at conference headquarters, the luxurious Quitandinha Hotel, and gathered a group of reporters around him. "I want to talk about financial aid from my country to Latin America," he announced quietly. What Fulton talked about, then and later, went off like a land mine under the official U.S. policy and its main author, George Humphrey...