Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weakening." Ernie Bevin had sat up all night pondering his speech. He had seized a moment when serious troubles plagued Britain's foreign spheres. Smartly and swiftly he had picked up a cue dropped by his predecessor, Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons debate the day before. Eden had said that atomic weapons and "every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty." Eden's counsel: "Abate our present ideas of sovereignty [and] take the sting out of nationalism." His conclusion: the veto power of the Big Five of the United Nations Organization...
Bevin went far beyond this cue, but in doing so he gave UNO its strongest stimulant in many months. Bevin insisted that Britain stood wholeheartedly behind the United Nations Organization and would utilize it-"stretch it to the limit of its capacity from the security point of view." He added: "There must be no weakening of the institutions which were built at San Francisco...
Tomato Surprise. In Newark, an alarmed inmate of the Ivy Hills Alms House summoned four fire engines, a res cue squad, and two hook-&-ladder trucks to a sunny field blazing with ripe, red tomatoes...
...cue, perhaps, to be found in the soldier's observance of the non-fraternization order, forbidden fruit appearing more attractive...
...occurring with remarkable regularity at the rate of one every other day. British and Russian occupation troops, facing each other across the restive Greco-Bulgar border, were getting into each other's sphere of influence and into each other's hair. The controlled Yugoslav press, taking its cue from Marshal Tito's blast at Greek "terrorism" (TIME, July 16), screamed insistently about "20,000" Slav refugees from Macedonia. To Salonika from Athens hurried Premier Admiral Petros Voulgaris to make a personal investigation...