Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was nothing unusual, he answered, about his phone conversation with Secretary Byrnes in Paris. He had never heard of a Cabinet meeting to discuss the French loan. What did the Cabinet discuss? That was none of the questioner's business...
Things actually began better than anyone had hoped. In the first five minutes Molotov agreed to let Host Georges Bidault discuss the Finnish and Balkan treaties-the very issue that had broken up the Foreign Ministers' meeting at London last autumn. Next Molotov budged a little from Russia's insistence that Italy pay $300,000,000 in reparations; he helped pick a committee to decide what Italy could pay. In the sessions that followed he made a series of small concessions on the Italian peace treaty...
...interested in conferring about defense or trade or anything else with the other members of the Empire. For one thing, he was busy enough at home. Parliament was in session. There were explosive Dominion-Provincial differences to be ironed out. And why should he go? To discuss trade? Canada already knew where she stood: she would help Britain, her best customer, back to stability with a loan of $1,250,000,000 and with urgent food shipments. Defense? Canada would, if need be, discuss that vital problem with the U.S., with whom her defense is strategically wedded...
Southern-born Ira Reid went to Atlanta's Morehouse College, did graduate work at the London School of Economics, took a Ph.D. at Columbia. Says he: "There will be 6 ft. 4 of the Negro problem standing up before the students. I do not need to discuss it separately...
...Record of the Line. At such times, Gus, if he has a listener, will discuss in a low, softspoken, drawling voice and with a sudden illuminating smile and chuckle when he makes a good point, the things that interest him. They are his family, farming, politics (as with many farmers, his second love), the evils of drinking, the record of his line...