Word: barter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear that he, too, was indifferent to offers of paper agreement, but was willing to listen attentively if the Russians offered a genuine settlement. Said Acheson: "We shall neglect no opportunity for increasing the area of solution and tranquility in the world. At the same time, we shall not barter away successes achieved for the sake of promises which might again prove to be illusory, as they too often have in the past...
...sufferings of his countrymen ; their son Antonio, an embittered ex-soldier who had welcomed the American soldiers but now hated them for their attentions to Italian women. It was a house where one could love or hate, but where no one could engage in the sort of painless barter Robert had hoped...
...Castries, capital of St. Lucia, the Marlin's chattering passengers quickly pass through British customs. They pay a 50?-a-gallon tariff on the French wine in their demijohns, but none on the high-duty Martinique rum hidden in their baskets. Ashore, they barter or sell their wine and rum, then go shopping. St. Lucia has the foodstuffs that bone-poor Martinique has had to do without...
...railroad station at Pukow, just across the Yangtze from Nanking, was choked with people. Soldiers, bulky in padded winter khaki, bivouacked on the concrete platforms. Their rice cooked in big iron pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth and matches for sesame oil and tobacco, swarmed with their bundles on the rooftops of overpacked third class coaches, on couplings, on the coal tender, on the catwalk around the locomotive boiler...
...different income brackets, their backgrounds and their beliefs. However, merely throwing together a wide assortment of men is not enough. Texas has to have a chance to talk to Park Avenue; son of the milliner must really get to know son of the minor. To make this great barter of ideas work has been the big job of the House Plan. After 15 years of the Houses, can we say that they have done this job, and done it well...