Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bind; Space is like earth, rounded, a padded
Acheson said that the pact did not bind the U.S. to provide arms for Western Europe, but it was obvious to him that only the U.S. could. He did not say, but his audience knew that the Administration was already preparing a first-year program of $1 billion to $1.5 billion in arms shipments to Western Europe. It was the point in the North Atlantic Treaty discussions that was most likely to get senatorial danders up. The Senate, after plenty of questioning, would probably produce the two-thirds majority vote required to ratify the pact. But several key supporters...
Dean Muelder agreed with Hocking that conflicting ideologies must be reconciled. He told the forum that "agreement is not identity of cultural dress," and warned that "we must distinguish between what values bind men together" in a workable manner...
Take a well-bred young English lady named Armorel Cepinnier and bind her in matrimony to Gian ("Toughie") Ardree, an Italian-born bricklayer with quick fists and a slow brain, and you can have a nice stew of social and psychological problems. Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir...
...vicious sides to [this ridiculous] practice is that often you are bound in such a manner that you cannot go to any other source to get the story . . . Every time you bind yourself in one of these absurd confidences, you get scooped. Let the pundits take over all the off-the-record conferences. Let them use the oblique references. Let our own staffs go back to reporting...