Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countries could pick the member from Latin America, etc. To Vishinsky this meant that Russia, and Russia alone, could pick the member for Eastern Europe.† Since Russia backed the Czechs for the vacant seat and disapproved of Yugoslavia, it was both "illegal and improper" that her candidacy even came up before the Assembly...
...Friday, Sept. 23, Ed landed in Moscow. Some Russians met him. "They asked me why didn't they know I was coming," Ed recalls. "Why hadn't I cabled? I said I didn't know that I should, that where I came from I went where I wanted. The two Russians - there are always two Russians - scratched their heads like they did back at Helsinki. They questioned me for two hours but I gave them straight answers. They finally said, 'We'll take you to the hotel in Moscow. They can find out what...
...first things to catch her eye was an untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it up, and every day thereafter from lunch until tea time, Britain's Queen Mother led a party armed with pruning shears, billhooks and mattocks, against the undergrowth. "No one who came to Badminton, whatever their rank or position, was exempt," says her latest biographer. "Queen Mary . . . worked with a will herself, lopping off branches, all the time keeping an eye on the rest of the party, making sure that no on-flagged...
...three center parties the Popular Republicans have the sharpest fear of parliamentary dissolution and new elections (the Popular Republicans anticipate wholesale defections to the Gaullists). By a majority vote the deputies could bring about dissolution at any time, and the longer the crisis went on the closer came the specter of dissolution...
Szipzr, who had it tough during the war (he spent several years in a Nazi concentration camp), seemed determined to make up for lost time. Attractive wives and daughters of prisoners often came to him to ask for special treatment of their relatives; the lieutenant, who appreciates feminine charms, usually granted these favors-in return for considerations...