Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abeyance: A state of grace for a disgraceful state...
...country's tidy little Navy in the Pacific. From his Senate he sought authority to open ports and bases to ships and planes of the U.S. and any American nation at war with a non-American power. (Under present arrangements belligerent ships are granted only 30 days' grace for refueling and repairs in Mexican ports.) Reasons for these elaborate, cooperative precautions were clear...
...farmhouses and in smaller cities where families still live close together, they would all gather under one roof, and grandfather would say grace before the dinner began. Too soon after dinner, there would be snacks of rich brown fruit cake, baked weeks before and set aside to ripen. In the South children would shoot off firecrackers and their elders would drink eggnog...
...official joined in the clamor. President Roosevelt said smoothly that supplies to Russia would continue. It came with bad grace for U.S. citizens-many of whom had opposed aid to Russia before-to censure Russia for not jumping on Japan, merely because Japan had jumped...
...back in good grace, he returned to the U.S. as Russia's Ambassador, entrusted with the vital job of arranging war collaboration. He arrived in a capital shocked by news of Japan's attack. Maxim Litvinoff's pleasure was tempered with gravity: Soviet Russia's greatest diplomat had stepped into the greatest responsibility he had ever known...