Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that she was already secretly married to a German whose whereabouts were unknown? Meddow, Jane and her husband all suffered because of the inevitable hurts of human dependence; each was an innocent victim of the other's needs. And so, suggests Green, are all other human beings who bind themselves in the chains of human relationships...
There was a dangerous oversimplification in that theory. If carried to extremes, it would bind the U.S. to help any unsavory opportunist professing antiCommunism. But Wedemeyer saw no such danger in Chiang's case: "I personally think he is a fine character. He is the logical leader of China today. I went there prepared not to like him, from things I had heard. He needs our help and he should...
...deal is the Adventists' plump, benign Carlyle B Haynes of Washington, B.C., who has made similar bargains with twelve other international unions during the past two years. Says he: "We believe that we ought not to be tied up in any organization which by a majority vote can bind us to a course of action contrary to our religious convictions...
...have been taught not to bind our bodies so tightly for fear of offending nature. . . . Are we now going in for an era of fainting...
...Night. George Marshall had got the treaty he wanted: one-third of the world's nations (and Canada if it liked) would bind themselves to resist attack against any one of them, whether by an outside country or by a member republic. Again & again the Argentines had given in on committee disputes. Sharp, thin Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia, sipping maté from a gourd in his Suite 400, had reined in his delegates. His orders flashed by day and by night. An Argentine delegate skidding down the fourth-floor corridor in his shorts to respond to a late...