Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dire financial straits, Frau Feix got a lawyer to plead her case. Last week, deadlocked on practically everything else on the agenda, Austria's Big Four High Commissioners reached agreement on the case of the kindhearted landlady. They decided that Frau Feix might sell the three rings, keep the proceeds in payment for Samaritan services to her boarder...
...quite possible that the meeting which begins today in Paris will also end in failure. There is certainly more skepticism in the West now than there was in 1947. But there does exist a possibility of agreement between the Big Four on the German problem: that possibility must be exploited to the fullest by the United States, Great Britain, and France, for the present uneasy condition of a divided Germany is a major roadbloc in the path to some sort of peaceful settlement of the East-West conflict...
...original, Kelly knocks down his crippled brother and his mother, and throws a fight in the first two pages. None of this lovable character delineation appears in the movie; instead Midge becomes a man who just can't lose--an animal who refuses to fall down, either by agreement or because of terrific punishment. He wins his last fight after being beaten silly because he gets sore in the fifteenth round; he dics afterwards of a brain hemorrhage-- ending his career not as a heel, not as a has-been, but as just one thing; the champion, if dead...
...would go on a hunger strike against the government's "wavering, incompetent and characterless" policy of appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...
Homing Rockets. The fact is that the new power plants (turbo-jets, ram-jets and rockets) have thrown air tactics into unprecedented confusion. One of the few points of wide agreement is that guns will play a reduced part in future air combat. Their effective range (300 to 400 yards) is too low, and the airplanes will flash past each other too fast for guns to be of much...