Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country-bred Ernie Bevin work together with the "Cockney Sparrow" Herbert Morrison, whose warmth has won him a far larger personal following than Bevin's. Bevin himself wanted the power of the purse. Said he: "Give me five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I will so alter this country that no one will ever change it back." Reticent, scholarly Hugh Daiton, who considers himself insufficiently appreciated as a foreign-affairs expert, wanted to go to Whitehall. Attlee agreed, but later, during a solitary lunch, he mulled things over, and decided that he had the line-up backwards...
...once assigned to one House will not be permitted to alter their allegiance. Exceptions will be made, however, in the case of former members of a House which is just reopening...
...yield. Now he told the world the "truth" (according to the U.S.S.R.): Russia, in objecting to the participation of France and China in Balkan treaty discussions, had merely followed the letter of the rules made by the heads of state at Potsdam. The foreign ministers had no right to alter the Potsdam decision-that only the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain, which had signed the Balkan armistice terms, should draft the Balkan treaties. An agreement was an agreement, said aggrieved Mr. Molotov, and to save the conference he had been willing to do anything except break the agreement...
...prove his point, Dr. Daley had an artist make tracings of Mono, Lisa, Titian's Man in a Red Cap and Holbein's Erasmus and alter the tracings to show how "dull and uninteresting" they look with noses altered to suit modern standards. As further evidence he has kept his own magnificently large, arched, craggy and overhanging...
...certain fixed regulations in those cases where facilities are to be established on lands pertaining to the Department of Interior.... The National Park Service officials are very definitely opposed to permitting structures of any type to be erected at such places as will be open to view and materially alter the natural appearance of the reservation...