Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean the disintegration of U.N. The Soviet bloc, the Arab states, perhaps the Far Eastern bloc would walk out, leaving the world divided into three or four armed camps. Many friendly nations, with whom the U.S. has a strong working alliance in the U.N., would jump for a neutral corner. Said U.N. Delegate Warren Austin: "The only possible bridge between the East & West would collapse; and yet, the problem of bridging the gap between the East & West is precisely the crucial problem of our time...
...year-old prostitute who has strayed from her normal beat; or he wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter, but every neighborhood has its own Brotbaum (bread tree). Berlin in this...
Next day Ike put on a double-breasted grey flannel suit and strode around the corner to the Faculty Club to meet the press. First, there was a question of protocol. No, don't call him president, he said; he wouldn't actually take over as president of Columbia until June 7. Congress had made him a general for life, Ike added, but just call him mister. ("Nobody has so far. Maybe it doesn...
...Belgium's achievement is enough to make a lot of economists throw in the slide rule in disgust. To the austeritarian school (prevalent in Europe and some U.S. quarters), prosperity, like chivalry, is an archaic notion, something that apple sellers in the '30s expected just around the corner. And even a good many plain Americans have agreed that free enterprise, if not downright immoral, is at least impractical in Europe today. Yet Belgium, like a healthy old chain-smoker defying the anti-nicotine prophets, is both prosperous and free...
When the results were announced (Li: 1,438; Sun Fo: 1,295), assemblymen went wild. They picked up smiling Madame Li, carried her shoulder-high. On the streets, where crowds had listened to the balloting at corner radios, firecrackers popped and crackled in celebration. The cheering throng surged to Li's headquarters, jubilantly hoisted the general aloft. Exulted a delegate: "Very good! We voted against the government...