Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the U.S. seemed inclined to go a long way toward the support of nationalism in Southeast Asia-provided it was not of the Red variety. But the U.S. was dubious of Nehru's Third Force position, his pan-Asiatic leanings, his inclination to see the U.S. and Russia as equally bad imperialist powers. In Washington's view, the problem was to persuade Jawaharlal Nehru that there was only one aggressive power design in the world-the Communist-and everybody else was in the same non-Communist boat...
...million Export-Import Bank credit. It would tide the Chileans over the slump in copper prices that knocked a hole in the government's expected revenues for 1949. Moreover, by making money available to pay for U.S. heavy equipment and materials, it would enable González to go forward with his program of economic development...
...further sign of high U.S. regard for Chile, Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller Jr. was under orders to go to Santiago soon and extend President Truman's invitation to Gabriel González to visit Washington next year...
Grace Tully, author of the fast-selling F.D.R. My Boss, looked back on her old secretarial job with mixed emotions. "They were hard sessions," she recalled. "You worked day and night-and each night you'd go home when the birds were singing. It was that late, that early in the morning ... I wish I had those days back again...
There, for 25 francs (7?) admission, stand "the shoeless ones"-the great middle-class portion of the crowd which is popularly supposed to bet its shoes and go home barefoot. When a start is bad or a favorite jostled, the crowd has been known to set fire to the beer stands dotting the infield, pull the pari-mutuel booths up by the roots and send the swells across the track fleeing...