Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singles matches against Great Britain the Frenchmen didn't lose a set. But the whole show looked more like public-park tennis than Cup matches. Whoever wins the European Zone finals-France, Sweden or Yugoslavia-will still have a long way to go for a chance at the Australian cup holders...
Hodgson damned Poland's case ("kyse" in his Cockney-like Australian *) for a break in relations with Spain and Brazil's "kyse" against U.N. intervention in the domestic affairs of any state...
...Spain is a menace we [will support] everything we can do under the Charter." Even sober-sided Andrei Gromyko grinned. By the time Hodgson was through, the Australian delegate had enough votes to back the principle of a Council subcommittee investigation to decide whether Spanish Fascism is a domes tic matter or a threat to world peace...
Last year's lecturer was Douglas B. Copeland, Australian economist. Other appointments to the lectureship went to Rt. Hon. James Bryce, President Charles W. Eliot, Walter Lippman, Lewis W. Douglas, Heinrich Bruening, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert Moses, and Charles E. Merriam. The lectures are usually published in book form at a later date...
...festering sun beat down impartially on New and Old Delhi-on the precisely geometric, grandly drab preserves of the British Raj, on the noisy, squalid, sprawling native town. A sweat-soaked British wallah might change his shirt four times before settling down to an evening burra peg of bad Australian whiskey in the garden of the Cecil Hotel. Even the calloused, naked feet of shirtless Indians burned as they padded along the teeming Chandni Chauk. In the brassy glare, the flowering trees near the Viceroy's residence seemed to bear sparks rather than blossoms. The rind of an orange...