Word: binde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most skilled painter who ever lived: he pictured bread on the table to seem near and crisp as bread on one's own table at home, and he could make even a little segment of sky as wide and mysterious as the sky itself. Beyond that, he could bind many different things, men and emotions into one unchanging harmony. The Last Supper incorporates all these powers, and more. It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history-and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted look of ordinary illustration...
...Delicate Situation." The ministers were unconvinced. Mendès insisted that his version of the treaty would still achieve the four basic aims of EDC: to bind Germany to the West, to arm the Germans in Western defense, to strengthen the government of Dr. Adenauer and to prepare the way for European political union. But what the Frenchman failed to see was that the "European" clauses of EDC, which one of his advisers defined as "mystique" were to the other ministers the heart and soul of the treaty. Mendès confronted the conference with what he felt...
...neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected by the alliance; Britain says it is already too late. Out of such a conglomeration is apt to come a maximum of rhetoric and a mini...
Again and again, British leaders have had to assure their people that Britain keeps its freedom of decision, that the U.S. cannot commit Britain to war. Again and again, British writers have pointed out that there is no formal bilateral alliance between Britain and the U.S. that would bind Britain to stand at the U.S.'s side in combat. Now it is clear that these statements meant exactly what they said and are not merely fine words to comfort the timid...
...therefore does not bind Daphne du Maurier, who has written lively fiction and close-to-life history about Mary Anne Clarke, her great-great-grandmother...