Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within the structure of the Council, it is because the whole system has never been subjected to the test of open inspection and referendum. And until it has, the Council exists in a vacuum, operating as a debate society which has drawn up a pretty set of laws which bind no one beyond the narrow confines of its own membership...
Bridges to Tomorrow. Faced with such perplexities, the State Department stalled while seeking a new formula for hemispheric action. Its Good Neighbors sought just as feverishly for a way out of the U.S.-Argentine conflict, for un puente de plata-a bridge of silver-that might bind the Americas together and save their 56-year-old Pan American system...
...thousands of case histories, cancer research has advanced at a turtle's pace. Doctors acknowledge the basic truisms that cancer is cell growth gone wild, that cases discovered early can sometimes be cured through X ray, surgery, radioactive substances. But beyond that, chains of ignorance still bind their hands...
...Dear Charley-I have thought out an idea for a presentation copy [of General Grant's Memoirs*] from the publishers to the Pope. . . . Bind it in pure solid gold lids (hinged at the back). The gold . . . would cost $500. . . . When placed on exhibition in Tiffany's window, all New York and all strangers visiting New York would flock to see [the book] . . . descriptions of it would appear in all languages & in all newspapers in the world. . . . Find out ... if His Holiness will accept. ... I think the idea is sound.. . . P.S. No, the gold would cost nearer...
...paper could be found suitable for printing the instrument of surrender, but in the basement of the Catholic Trade School were just enough sheets of rich, heavy parchment. Army engineers printed the job in offset. It was decided to use plain staples, instead of white satin bows, to bind the sheets...