Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour later John D. had finished a letter to the U.N., offering the property as a gift. The conditions: that New York City buy up and give to U.N. the few lots needed to square off the site; that the city turn over the streets included in the area, and rights to the waterfront...
...York City's Board of Estimate immediately agreed to do its part. A sub-committee of the U.N. made a whirlwind inspection of the site, turned in a glowing report. At week's end the General Assembly voted (46 to 7) to accept the Rockefeller gift. U.N. had found a home...
...hero is a moth-eaten Santa Claus who finds no takers for his gift of "understanding." The carnival figure of Death appears, as in a medieval morality play, gives him a skull mask and persuades him to be a salesman. In the guise of Science, Santa Claus successfully sells "knowledge" now, not understanding. Something awful happens to his customers, however. Santa Claus then has to face a defrauded, angry...
Santa Claus is saved from being lynched by a child, who sees through the devil's mask and identifies him. And Santa's gift, which no one would take in what Death has described as "an age of salesmanship," finds a touching-and universal-taker...
...done nothing else in bestowing his pre-Christmas gift on the University's delegation to the Chicago Conference, Professor Elliott has made it abundantly clear that much more than the collegiate whims of a few students is involved in the formation of a National Students Congress. He has demonstrated that the clash of political philosophic can be just as important and just as acute in such a setting as the full dress ideological battle being played today on the national and international stage...