Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman Walter George of the Foreign Relations Committee, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau last week walked into the Senate chamber to deliver a little speech saying how glad he was to be in the U.S. Already his text had been passed out to the press ("the honor you have done me, and through me to my country, by inviting me to say a few words . . ."). But Christian Pineau never got to the rostrum. The State Department had neglected to tell the secretary of the Senate that he was coming; there were only twelve Senators on the floor...
...British and the Greeks were increasingly desirous of ending their cold war. The exiled Archbishop Makarios' former secretary and right-hand man, Nikos Kranidiotis, showed up in London with a proposal that he and the other five members of the archbishop's advisory council would be glad to relay any new British offers to Makarios, and Makarios himself wrote a letter suggesting that the gap between him and the British before his exile last March "was not wide." Still, if the British could only get their hands on Grivas, they would feel in a much stronger bargaining position...
...Stalin, gave a passing glance to that of Lenin. His 5 ft. wreath was marked "To Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" from "Josip Broz Tito." At a workers' meeting at the Moskva Auto Works (formerly the Stalin Auto Works), he said that after an absence of ten years he was glad to meet some people who were not afraid to look him in the eye and speak...
...only the trustees and the faculty and the students and the general public to deal with. It is the alumni that make the job hard." Or, in the words of William F. Buckley, Jr., in God and Man at Yale, these Presidents in dealing with alumni were often "glad to settle for their money and to eschew their counsel...
...Restoration Institute, after six months of vain attempts to save it, announced that it was abandoning the rapidly deteriorating mural to the ravages of running water and sediment. Rivera, in seclusion in Acapulco, was unavailable for discussion of the decision. But old rival and fellow Communist, David Siqueiros, was glad to oblige: "When Diego started painting this mural, I told him that polystyrene, like any other paint, was not going to resist water for even two years. I advised Rivera to use mosaic, but Diego paid no attention to me." The real blame, of course, could be traced...