Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watch the World Series-he watched the Yankee-Dodger games in the afternoon either on the twelve-inch television screen in the Oval Room or at Blair House. He cleaned up pressing business, solemnly signing the $1,314,010,000 European arms bill and the $5,809,990,000 foreign economic aid bill. Then, at week's end, he set out for Charlottesville, Va. by automobile to spend two days with his poker-party friend, Stanley Woodward, the State Department's chief of protocol...
...Johnson was not disarmed. His committee voted 7 to 0 to reject Olds's nomination and two days later the full Senate Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce voted 10 to 2 against Olds. It would have been more honest, observed the Washington Post, had the committee rejected him ''on the candid ground that he has been stubborn in his opposition to the utility interests...
...commission," wrote the President, "have not been pleased with Mr. Olds." Colorado's tart old Democrat Johnson replied that subcommittee members were "shocked beyond description" by what Olds had once written. He had to admit that Olds as a witness was "very convincing. Like many crusaders for foreign ideologies, he has an attractive personality and is disarming to a very high degree...
...some extent, the students met the expectation. Sometimes they were loud ties and talked in loud brash tones about how cheap everything was in Europe but how ridiculous the foreign ways of doing things were and how they would love to get back to good old New York for a real hamburger...
...moment American students were deposited on the shores of the Old World, they began to come scropper over strange foreign customs and to get themselves entangled in other countries' red tape. They ordered the wrong things off the menu, got the wrong directions for the wrong places, overstrained their meager vocabularies, and waved their hands in despair. Occasionally the misunderstandings could lead to ferocious consequences, for instance if you didn't know that when an Italian says "Basta" to you, he means "enough," and not what you thought he meant...