Word: brande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's Andrei Gromyko, looking grimmer than usual in a pair of dark glasses, proposed a different plan-an immediate, unconditional cease-fire order which would in effect brand the Arabs as aggressors. Amid cheers from the spectators' gallery, U.S. Delegate Warren Austin sided with Russia. It was only after the Russian motion had been voted down by the Council that the U.S. switched its support to the British proposal. Ernie Bevin's formula thus became the basis last week of U.N.'s latest approach to a Palestine solution...
...year-old Smuts lost his . own seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
Bonnard once pointed out (in a conversation quoted in Verve) that his personal brand of impressionism involved painting first impressions. He described an experiment in painting from nature instead of from memory which had ended in failure. "I tried to paint directly, scrupulously," he recalled, "and I let myself be absorbed by the details ... I realized that I was muddling, that I was getting nowhere. I had lost, I could no longer find my way back to my initial idea, the vision that had charmed me . . . the first seductiveness...
Task Force. In Washington, a brand-new committee shyly raised its dolichocephalic head in the National Military Establishment: the Munitions Board Industry Advisory Security Planning Task Committee on Determination of a Listing of Rated Resources...
...annoyed government is cracking down. From Movie Star Jorge Negrete (who had bought it innocently enough), officials took a brand-new Cadillac, and announced that owners of other smuggled cars faced the same treatment plus a six-year jail term and a $1,000 fine. Last week, motorists driving into Mexico were asked to surrender car-ownership certificates at the border. Federal inspectors also moved in on bribe-taking customs men who connived in letting big shipments through, arrested five customs officers...