Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month Garry Davis came to Trouillas. Fabrégas introduced him to the village's bright-eyed mayor, Gaston Méric. Davis had trouble understanding Méric's Catalan dialect, and Méric had trouble understanding Davis' French; but ideas percolated back & forth. Said the mayor, after Davis had gone: "I felt sure he was a nut. I'm still not sure he isn't. But maybe that's what we need to have peace...
Lucky has told U.S. friends that, somehow or other, he would get back to New York by next New Year's Eve. If they wanted to know where to meet him, let them look in the classified ads of the New York Times for Dec. 31. Meanwhile, last week, the frustrated city boy found it impossible to stay in even stodgy old Rome...
...feel ashamed to be back in Canton under the present circumstances of retreat and failure. I cannot but admit that I must share a great part of the defeat . . . I am appalled at the existence of gambling and opium smuggling in Canton under the very nose of the government. [But] we must hold Canton, our last port . . . the last place from which we can use both our navy and air force ... I am ready to perish with the city...
Some economists thought that putting food prices back into free play was a step in the right direction toward correcting Argentina's out-of-balance economy. Labor unions did not think so. They announced that they would seek a new round of wage increases...
Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, on his way back to Europe after the Goethe Bicentennial festival in Aspen, Colo., stopped off at the University of Chicago to pick up an honorary LL.D...