Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friction between the Anglo-Americans and the Russians in the early days of joint occupation was caused by: 1) suspicion growing out of different languages, customs and behavior, and 2) the Russians' desire to make a good showing of their ten weeks of occupation. The Russians are proud of their Army's victories, not so proud of its appearance and peacetime behavior. They wanted to get the rougher elements out and the disciplined troops in before the British and Americans came. And they wanted the British and Americans to see how well they were cleaning up and running...
...first the committee had felt disposed to blame only one of the club's 1,550 members. But regretfully they had come to the conclusion that more were involved. If the revelation did not shame the culprits into decent behavior, said the tart letter, the committee would not hesitate, under Rule 29, to invoke the extreme penalty: expulsion from the club for unbecoming conduct...
...others had nothing to say. But their military behavior was perfect; not a heel dragged...
...Sirdar J. J. Singh, president of the India League of America, declared the meeting "a striking evidence of the desire of the vast majority of Indians to work together and . . . also an evidence of the continuing British policy of unduly emphasizing minorities." He characterized the Moslem League's behavior at Simla as "coercion of the majority," blamed Lord Wavell for the failure of the conference "only to the extent that he has allowed himself to be bullied into retreat by a small minority...
...plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about it to justify the investment...