Word: consignment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate pounds from being used to buy British exports, Britain set up a new control system in Paris to make sure only pounds bought at the official rate were used in Anglo-French trade. The Dutch and the Belgians were expected to follow the British lead-in effect, consign France to a monetary isolation ward...
...haste to consign the airplane to obsolescence, Sir Arthur harrumphed that the atomic bomb does not even necessarily have to be carried by anything resembling a missile (much less aircraft). "There is no reason why the parts of an atomic bomb . . . should not be brought in bit by bit by seemingly innocent people and assembled anywhere where cover can be found, in an embassy, attic, lodging or in a ship in harbor." Many atomic authorities would agree. But his theory that "once a weapon is used it becomes obsolete" is a bit sweeping considering the long bow (1,000 years...
Fifty-odd Washington newsmen belabored the Secretary with 33 written questions, all adding up to the bitter brevity: "What the hell?" Mr. Stettinius sweated, lost his famous smile. His unspoken hope was that the San Francisco Conference would quickly consign the deal to some limbo where the mess could be conveniently forgotten...
...picture, deleted some double-entendre scenes and dialogue, revised one sequence to permit Publisher Douglas to discover early in the game that his sister-in-law is really his wife, the Legion may consider its work well done. It is not. The only good job would have been to consign this picture forever to the darkness of M.G.M.'s vaults...
...will follow you with stammered thanks from aeon to aeon until, irked by having no peace even in the hereafter, you will consign me to Hell! Then you will no longer hear me, but I can assure you that I will continue to stammer my thanks even there. Until that moving catastrophe will have occurred, I will once more presume on your kindness. . . . Your servant, eternally devoted to you with heart and blood...