Word: chessboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inability to decide what can and should be done. If the Chinese Communists are illiterate in the language of international diplomacy and decency, we will have to draw them a picture that they can understand. The important thing now is not to make a clever move on the chessboard of chicane, but to resolve upon a rescue...
Students found time to start a literary society, publish a magazine, and indulge in diversions that met with faculty approval: boating, fishing, wicket and quoits. It was considered "morally wrong" for students to spend much time over a chessboard, and some young wastrels had been known to patronize saloons, gaming houses and even the theater...
...made another move on the Far Eastern chessboard. In a quietly firm note to Moscow and Nanking, it asked for a speedy end to Soviet control of the Chinese port of Dairen and the Chinese Changchun Railway-and a speedy reopening of both to world traffic...
Even while the Byrnes-Wallace controversy raged and U.S. foreign policy was, in effect, in suspension, the U.S. last week made significant moves on the diplomatic chessboard...
...Dollars. The new President's next move on the international chessboard was his own secret, if even he knew it. Perhaps, as the crowd seemed to think, Perón was going to let Ambassador Messersmith stew in his own State Department's juice-at least for a while...