Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews too leaned toward compromise. After informal discussions with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Zionists in London sent an emissary to Jerusalem to win Zionist Inner Council approval for Jewish participation in the conference. The Jews were prepared to go to Lancaster House with a plan for outright partition and "establishment of a viable Jewish state in an adequate area of Palestine...
Among Harvard professor who studied at Oxford on Rhodes benefits are Crane Brinotn '19, William Yandell Elliott, Mason Hammond '25, Professor Haring; Ernest Hooton, and F. O. Matthiessen...
...Curiously enough, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was at first dismayed. . . . Further study made the Foreign Office realize, however, that Byrnes's tactics were a remarkable blend of subtlety and realism. Therefore the economic unification of the British and American zones of occupation is now being negotiated here in Berlin, and will soon be undertaken...
Durocher's Trick. The big surprise of the season was what had kept the Brooklyn bums up so long. The answer was easy: it was all an Indian rope trick by the Dodgers' dapper Leo Ernest ("The Lip") Durocher (pronounced Dee-ro-ture in Brooklyn), a man who owns 20 pairs of shoes and pays $175 apiece for his suits...
...Killers (Mark Hellinger-Universal), as Ernest Hemingway wrote it, was a short story and a simple one. It told how a pair of professional assassins talked tough to some people in a lunch wagon. Horrified young Nick Adams (Hemingway as a boy) managed to warn their quarry, the Swede, but the Swede just stayed on his bed, knowing he could not escape. Within a few crisp pages of dialogue, Hemingway created a masterpiece in terror-by-suggestion...