Word: attached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Barnard College's Philologist William Cabell Greet agreed with Shaw generally, but didn't think any democratic government-U.S. or British-could get anywhere against the sentiment that people attach to spelling. Said he: "If the Japanese had dictated peace, they might have been able to dictate a simplified spelling...
...moment, at least, he could once again attach some importance to matters irrelevant to war, less dynamic than politics. He could turn some attention again to poetry and art. He could applaud Actress-of-the-Year Ingrid Bergman, wrinkle his pseudo-Philistine brow over the re-emergence of Artist-of-the-Year Pablo Picasso, still full of invention and razzle-dazzle, still able to rouse resentment. He could view the discovery of streptomycin by Doctor-of-the-Year Selman Wakeman as something more than irony...
Higashi-Kuni went through Tokyo's Military Academy. In the early '20s he served as military attaché in Paris, where he studied French tactics, acquired a taste for French cooking and a French mistress (rumor said she bore him four children and kept him abroad until His Majesty's Government threatened to cut off his funds). Back in Tokyo, he lived fast. He gambled-not for money but for whiskey (i.e., he paid off by taking two drinks every time he lost). He patronized geisha houses. He liked to drive at top speed in his maroon...
More important - particularly to the Big Three meeting in Potsdam - was the weight of high explosives being dumped on Japanese targets. Halsey roamed ostentatiously up & down the Emperor's coastline in the foul weather which seems to attach itself to the Third Fleet. The B-29s from the Marianas struck two great blows, firing four cities each time...
There were other possible reasons: Molotov already had more than he could do, what with the German problem coming up, the Polish problem unsettled, the known shortage of qualified personnel in the U.S.S.R.'s foreign services. Certainly Stalin did not attach as much importance to the world conference as Churchill and Roosevelt did, or the Marshal would have let nothing stand in the way of Molotov's joining Eden and Stettinius at San Francisco. This week London dispatches reported that Eden might attend briefly, and perhaps not at all. In its mood of international depression last week, Washington...