Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...martyrdom of General Bor and his heroic partisans in Warsaw; the Moscow-sponsored Government at Lublin; the methodical destruction of the London Polish Government. At Dumbarton Oaks, Russia's diplomats insisted that, in the framework of postwar security, no great power (e.g., Russia) should be disciplined without its consent...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a Christmas present for the Poles-partition. To a House of Commons still seething with the Greek crisis, he announced that, with Britain's consent, Russia would extend her western frontier to the Curzon line. Poland would be compensated by about half of East Prussia, including Danzig, so that she would have a Baltic coast of some 200 miles (see map). She would also receive unspecified parts of eastern Germany to which Poland had historical claims. Presumably this meant parts of Silesia...
...handsome Villa Manrique, Seville residence of the bride's father, was crammed with 1,500 presents, including one from General Francisco Franco. Don Carlos, in high good humor, had signed the necessary canonical consent for the union, then appeared benevolently at the bridegroom's traditional banquet on the wedding eve. Later he gave a sumptuous party for the principitos (little princes), and principitas, children of the guests...
...middle name means "Fortunate One," was squeezed out of office for refusing to grant Russia oil concessions in Northern Iran. So far the new Government of Premier Morteza Gholi Bayat, whose first name means "Pleasing to God," has not been asked for a concession. But last week, with his consent, the Iranian Parliament lashed Gholi Bayat to the mast and stopped his ears with wax. It passed a bill making it a crime to negotiate oil concessions with a foreign government or company. Penalty for disobeying: three to eight years in jail...
...storm center of Johnson's popularity seems to reside so firmly among girls below the age of consent that he is sometimes described as the voiceless Sinatra. Johnson's attitude towards this sudden, enormous popularity is rather baffled ("I can't pick my nose in public any more"). Equally, it is frank and heartfelt: "God," he says, "I hope it lasts." He understands his fans all the more sympathetically because he is still a celebrity hound himself. To meet Ronald Colman is still a breath-taking event...