Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool, unruffled speaker with a shy, dry wit and an impressive talent for fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That...
...outside world was not afraid to speak. All over Italy, Catholic Action organized protest meetings; in Milan, 5,000 Catholics fought bitterly with Communist strong-arm squads which tried to break up their meeting. In Italy's National Assembly, Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced that the government had sent a message of "fraternal solidarity" to Hungarian Catholics. Communist deputies screamed defiance...
...Lange, this was somewhat confusing. Fortnight before, the U.S. had in effect torpedoed the efforts of Sweden to get Norway and Denmark to join in a neutral Scandinavian bloc, which would have no ties to the Atlantic pact. It had been Sweden's hope that the U.S. would arm such a bloc. But the U.S. replied that its arms would go first to the nations joining up in the Atlantic pact...
...Frank Sinatra and Edgar Bergen had joined the talented throng (e.g., Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Red Skelton) that had deserted NBC for Paley's CBS. Item: Prudential Insurance Co. had lent CBS $5,000,000 to add muscle to the network's already long arm...
...pound class--Dolan (D) decisioned Kozol (H), 10-3; 128-pound class--Smith (H) pinned Goldthorpe (D) with an arm lock and body press at 4:38; 136-pound class--Abboud (H) pinned White (D) with a double bar arm at 4:39; 145-pound class--King (H) pinned Rabe (D) with a half nelson and body press at 2:59.5; 155-pound class--Gilmore (D) decisioned Skinner (H), 4-2; 165-pound class--Thompson (H) pinned Donahue (D) with a half nelson and leg hold at 8:15; 175-pound class--Monahan (D) decisioned Connors (H), 5-2; heavyweight...