Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomatic Break. A few hours later diplomatic relations were formally severed; and the official Soviet diplomatic and trade representatives were given ten days in which to clear out of England. The Soviet charge d'affaires ordered packing to start at once, but took care to issue a formal statement branding as "forgeries" all incriminating documents in the British White Book...
Perhaps there seem to drum in imagination's ear those feverish midnight hoofbeats which so often heralded (in winter or summer, snow or clear) the approach of the mad yet somehow great King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The hoofbeats become a roar, and then the gilded coach or sleigh is seen. In the darkness its powerful interior lighting reveals the King, often in his golden crown, lolling at ease yet disconsolate. A robe of rich stuff lies across his knees and those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women...
...became clear that Signor Mussolini's declaration was "defensive," not "offensive," in intent when once there was placed before the passage quoted another which altered, almost reversed its meaning. Correspondents did not quote this key passage in the original transmission, and it only came to light, 48 hours late, when the New York Times had the whole 9,000 word speech cabled at thrifty week-end rates...
...reporters may have been surprised to hear Miss Williams speak not bitterly but with rare discernment about the Chinese situation. She kept clear, as many have not, the distinction between the Conservative and Communist wings (now split apart) of the Chinese Nationalist party. It was a Communist Nationalist soldier fighting under the Conservative Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek (before the split) who shot Dr. Williams. Miss Williams showed that she does not hold the Conservative general blamable, but rather looks to the Conservative Nationalist regime which he, Chiang Kaishek, has set up at Nanking, as the salvation of China...
...wrote. If they had, they would know that-victim of cliches though he is, Utopian and ambrosial though his visions become and offensive though it seems of him to announce his views as "heresy of the first order"?he is not an unctuous man. He is a clear-headed businessman and pretends to be nothing else; nothing mystical, nothing superior to others...