Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Big Four's Foreign Ministers bogged down in deadlocks at Paris last week, Jimmy Byrnes leaned forward in his armchair. He eyed the pile of papers before him on the green-topped table and waved aside the conflicts they contained. "Gentlemen," he smiled, "it appears that we all feel we cannot trust each other on small problems. Let us see if we cannot trust each other on big ones...
...suggestion was not the bright idea of an armchair strategist. Five carefully chosen men, working twelve to 18 hours a day for eight weeks, had finally brought it forth. When it was done, the State Department's Committee on Atomic Energy passed it along to Congress, without endorsement but with unanimous agreement that it made the most sense of any proposal yet. Not even Major General Leslie R. Groves, unreconstructed defender of military-security-before-all-else, objected to the letter of transmittal in which Under Secretary Dean Acheson's committee declared...
...passed a nervous day. Said he: "To stay in good shape I remain in bed all the day. I get up and drink very strong coffee, do exercises. I test my voice. It is all right. I dress up, go to hall, stay there one-half hour in armchair...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek opened his first press interview since last December by shaking hands with the foreign newsmen. Then he relaxed in an armchair. Madame Chiang, in black jacket and maroon skirt, sat on his right; occasionally she helped affable Information Minister K. C. Wu with the interpreting. While tea was served, questions & answers were passed...
...There isn't much time. . . . Don't, I implore you, sink too deep, too far, into that famous English privacy. . . . Fleet the time carelessly [in] your slippers and armchair . . . go off with the girl and enjoy the loneliest possible holiday. . . . But when you come back, be a real citizen and not a hermit in a bungalow. . . . Remember that we are in history and are not merely watching it stream past. . . . I declare to you that I would rather see this whole island turned inside out and upside down every ten years, with whole cities pulled down and rebuilt...