Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutra comes to the U.S. as President of a nation whose friendly relations with the U.S. go back to 1789, when Thomas Jefferson met a group of young Brazilian students in Paris and encouraged their dreams of independence. As a Brazilian foreign officer put it: "We are taught three things in school: believe in mother, God, and the friendship...
...went on another binge and wound up facing a rape charge. For Manager Hurley it was as though $100,000 in purses had flown out the window, but he set to work again, glumly, doggedly fitting the pieces together. The criminal charge against Foster was dismissed. The fighter went back to training and praying, and Manager Hurley began to think about purses again...
Largely as a promotion stunt for the new strip, the newspaper ran a voting blank asking SHALL WE SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called...
...years-all the way from Lake Success to Geneva and back again-the United Nations had been arguing about an international covenant for freedom of the press. Last week, when the General Assembly finally approved the world's first treaty on the subject, it hardly seemed worth all the argument. The "Convention on the International Transmission of News and the Right of Correction" was just strong enough to make it certain that the Soviet bloc would never ratify it. But it was so weak that the U.S. would have little reason to ratify it either, after it is submitted...
When Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor took over the National Geographic in 1899, he likes to recall, the circulation was so small (900) that "I could carry the entire issue on my back." Today, says Grosvenor, who shares his magazine's passionate addiction to detail, "A single issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...