Word: disowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's Arkady Sobolev, grasping quickly at a chance to score with the Arabs, announced that his government would disown its words and vote to strike them from the resolution. Sir Pierson Dixon, after stiffly refusing to take out "five little words which are really a glimpse of the obvious," received new orders from "a higher authority," namely Sir Anthony Eden. At the next meeting the British and the U.S. yielded "in the interests of unanimity." Dropping the paragraph the Arabs objected to, the council voted a watered-down resolution calling on the secretary-general to keep using...
...World War II had fought and died to deliver Greece "from what I then believed, and still believe, was the certainty of Communist rule ... I was in Athens at the time." He accused Archbishop Makarios of negotiating in bad faith, of raising his demands, of refusing to disown the terrorists. Added Eden: "We had no choice but to fulfill our responsibilities or abdicate our authority, and we chose the former. It was not an agreeable decision...
This week's game against Maryland will be U.C.L.A.'s toughest of the season. To hear Harvey Knox tell it, Ronnie will win it singlehanded. "Maryland? Why, if Ronnie don't throw for five or six touchdowns, I'll disown him. I'll cream him." Red Sanders suffered from a little more professional pessimism: "If we get hurt in one or two places, we could go down pretty fast...
...many plays in the past have suffered from, and have eventually overcome, such problems as lukewarm reviews and extended revisions. What hit Silk Stockings in Boston of January 22 was something entirely new and unexpected. Under the headline: KAUFMANS DISOWN SILK STOCKINGS', the Herald reported how George Kaufman and his wife Leueen McGrath, co-authors of Silk Stockings, had just seen the show in Boston after several weeks of absence from the troupe withdrawing from the production. Kaufman has never made clear whether he did not like the show in Boston or simply thought that Abe Burrows had re-written...
FRANCE, where EDC was born, is now trying hard to disown it. The French cabinet demands an impossible price for ratification of EDC: that the Franco-German dispute over the Saar be settled in favor of France; that the U.S. bail France out of Indo-China; that Britain throw in with EDC as a counterbalance to the Germans; that "the integrity of the French Army" (but not of anybody else's) be written into EDC by means of nine protocols. A German diplomat, reflecting his booming country's self-confidence, scoffed: "Father Pleven expected a girl. It turned...