Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks of a bid for a slice of celestial pork...
Part of the price the U.S. had paid Joseph Stalin at Yalta was a promise that the U.S. would support Russia's bid for a "special position" in Manchuria: control of the South Manchurian Railroad, Dairen and Port Arthur. Told about this deal months later, Chiang Kai-shek reluctantly accepted. Further, when the Russians marched into Manchuria, three days after the atom bomb on Hiroshima, they disarmed the Japanese, then handed the arms to the Chinese Communists. Chiang was not surprised. Even when both he and the Reds were arrayed against the Japanese, Chiang used to say: "The Japanese...
Beaten to a Rag. At the end of each year, Q would give one final party. A whole crowd of students and fellows would escort him to the station, and there, with great ceremony, bid him goodbye. Then, "beaten to a rag with this term's work," Q would set out for Cornwall-to a plain house, "indeed, very much like a house a child draws on a slate." There he would write his essays, or work on the new edition of the famed Oxford Book of English Verse, or supervise regattas in the uniform of a yacht club...
Barnard Hall has already put in a bid for 15 children in the five and six-year-old group. One dorm even wants the affair co-educational, with little girls--and little boys...
...first seven arrived by bus at Fort Dix, N.J., the Army seemed almost startled by its own Rotarian effusiveness. Cameras flashed, and a lieutenant colonel stepped forward to bid the thunderstruck youths a warm but manly welcome. Then noncoms, who seemed to have gone through some defanging process, took them gently in tow, and ordered them to write letters home...