Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt sent off a second note: "This Eisler case seems a hard nut to crack. What do you suggest?" This brought another polite brush-off from Welles. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt, now busy with U.N. duties, told newsmen that she had never met Eisler and did not remember writing the notes to Welles. "When I was in the White House," she said airily, "I had hundreds of such requests a month, and, depending on the character of the request, the letters were passed on to the correct Government department...
...Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee found itself listening to Russia's Valerian A. Zorin. Next year's U.N. conference on freedom of press & information, said he, should crack down on the "warmongering" press. He left the Committee a nine-point Soviet resolution to chew on. Meanwhile, Delegate Vishinsky treated some 300 members of the working press to further charges of warmongering...
...proponents of world government, I should like to take exception to your editorial of September 23, entitled "The Third Alternative." The "fury of the Soviet reply to the proposals made by Secretary Marshall" did not seem to be the "crack of doom" to world federalists. Vishinsky's reply, and indeed the whole history of the UN, have been the unhappy fulfillment of our prediction that the UN, as presently constituted, could never succeed. We are still convinced that the world must choose between world federal government and world destruction...
...fury of the Soviet reply to the proposals made by Secretary Marshall before the General Assembly was discouraging to sincere supporters of the United Nations, it must have sounded like the crack of doom to proponents of world government. By this time it should be clear that, if "World Government or World Destruction" represents a complete choice of alternatives, the future is very bleak indeed...
...players: the pretty Hapsburg queen, Marie Antoinette, with her "Lilac Coterie" of expensive courtiers; the fat and timorous king, who hated rebels on principle; and various noblemen, courtesans, and intriguers of Versailles. The dying Voltaire comes up from Ferney to see his play, Irene, and to give Feuchtwanger a crack...