Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Malik had seemed very angry when he was speaking, but as soon as he left the Council room he laughed and joked with newsmen. Even Malik's chauffeur plays the curious Security Council walkout game: he drove up like clockwork as Malik reached the door...
Hardly had the excitement abated and U.N.'s normal boredom been restored, when the Russians this week announced a general walkout from all U.N. agencies and committees. The strike was to continue until the Chinese Nationalists were turned out of U.N. Everybody fluttered the rule books again. Not in months had the Lake Success croquet-ground seen such a scurrying of hedgehogs, such a squirming of flamingoes...
Said General Douglas MacArthur of Derevyanko's walkout: "I can well understand the reluctance of the Soviet member to listen to so gruesome and savage a story in all its harrowing barbarity. It would well chill and sicken even a hardened old soldier...