Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Task. Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles, who had forced the Administration to trim its demand into acceptable form, met his measured argument with measured reply. "If it is properly handled, it can be the greatest economy measure which this country has ever adopted," said Dulles. "Let us not lose our perspective," Vandenberg urged. "The objective is . . . defense for the common cause, this common cause, among other things, being the defense of the United States." Old Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained: "The North Atlantic Treaty and the military...
...with instructions to cope with any emergency that might arise from the conflict. In the case of seaborne invasion, the British Museum had issued a neat booklet telling Britons what to do if they should find a whale on their beach. The prescribed procedure was simple: fill out a form (N.H.M. Form 136 tidily enclosed in the booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question...
This annual melancholia did not generally extend to U.S. parents. Popeyed, they watched the new styles in clothes and friends take form; only half believing, they listened as, with the fall semester, the language began its annual metamorphosis on teen-age tongues...
Following Russia's lead, Hungary and Poland voided their treaty of mutual aid and friendship with Yugoslavia yesterday and thus further cut the tie between the Comin form nations and Premier Marshal Tito's government...
Shortly thereafter the Braves lit a small bonfire on the dugout steps and huddled around it warming their digits. Umpire Barlick chose to ignore this. The Braves even went so far as to get two base hits off Newcombe before they relapsed to form and struck out one, two, three...