Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides being tardy, the Council suggestions are also incomplete. The code for indoor meetings is clear and well-considered, but the Council has not set down specifically where and why a stumper may stump out of doors. The Council has said what general considerations should guide University Hall, but it has said nothing about particular steps and streets and deltas. There could be much unpleasantness if the Faculty has only a vague basic policy to back up its permissions and denials...
When Charles de Gaulle heard of the Herriot-Thorez discussions, he quickly made his position clear: "If the separatists [the R.P.F. name for Communists] were to enter what is conventionally known as the government of France, from that moment legitimacy would be ended . . . If the wretches were to invite into the government the men who do not play the game of France, then who would dare to say that we would still be in a state of legality...
...typewriter, he pecks out his' daily two columns of editorials. He is done by 6, takes 40 minutes for longhand revisions, then jots down a few notes for his 8 a.m. broadcast. At 6:55 he plunges into the life & times of George Washington, writing in a clear, small hand on white, unlined paper. Freeman has three synchronized clocks in his office placed to catch his eye from any position (over one of them stands the stern sign: "Time is irreplaceable. Waste...
...Crimson has played the toughest game on its schedule, but they are not in the clear. To start winning again, they will have to play as they did on Saturday...
...defense line in the Pyrenees has been opposed by French national interests. Since the idea first took shape in Paris the French have been understandably miffed at the thought of their country becoming "expendable." A military guarantee to France might erase this objection, and then the way would be clear for the State Department to accept Franco's fascism and his strategic nation...