Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intensely disagreed" but would abstain, "realizing that my vote against the proposal would make its adoption impossible." Gromyko thus reiterated Russia's sweeping interpretation of the veto. Earlier, Russia had threatened another walkout from U.N. After the Council voted down 8-to-3 his demand that it drop Iran from the agenda, Gromyko said that Russia would take no further part in the discussions on Iran. Everybody had won-Russia most...
...King went to Europe at all, it would not be for several weeks. Then it would be only to attend a peace conference, when one is held, in Paris. He would be glad to drop in on Prime Minister Attlee and other friends in London en route. But he would not help London window-dress any so-called Empire Conference. Canada was a sovereign, independent nation. London had better understand that right...
Steel production was down to 67.7% and falling fast. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. was down to 22% operations in the Pittsburgh-Youngstown district, and down to 40% in the Chicago-Gary area. Barren's index of industrial production was down to 160.5, a drop of 14.6 since the strike's start...
...financial balance sheets, but will pale beside the efforts of other colleges. Harvard's record consists of importing 198 second-hand government units from a Maine project, setting these dwellings up on three areas adjacent to the University, and running them in conjunction with the government. Realizing the drop-in-bucket inadequacy of this effort, an administrative committee is quietly searching out the alumni and local realtors for vacant apartment buildings and hotels and is further conducting negotiations with the Cambridge City Council for erection of a small-scale project on the site of the Botanical Gardens. But while...
...technique used by the theatre in the past and a half-dozen odd new ones are employed to take the Fogg caravan around the globe. Silent movies are projected on a screen every few scenes; trains move across the stage; eagles pick up heroes and carry them off; feathers drop on the audience from the ceiling. These peculiarities, combined with a change of scene without panse every five minutes, keep the hapless audience tense, probably more with fear than anything else...