Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westerners could only guess what inspired the accords. Some speculated that Russia had been forced to grant concessions to keep rambunctious Red China in line. Others speculated that Russia and Red China were moving more closely together, that the best opportunities for world revolution lay in Asia and that Red China was to be allowed, encouraged and built up to lead...
...miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then considered the most luxurious hotel in the world. It had 800 rooms, and the smallest was 16 ft. square. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in an eight-room, suite with her parrot and baby tiger; General Grant came as a Civil War hero, had to mumble speeches when he lost his false teeth. Kipling shuddered at the spittoons, called the hotel "a seven-storied warren of humanity." President Harding died there...
...through plans to seize Rome by air after Mussolini's fall; had they done so, he says, the slogging campaign up southern Italy would not have been needed. Anzio, he thinks, was a blunder. But in general, says Morison, the Italian campaign was worth it all-unpopular like Grant's Wilderness campaign of 1864, but equally a campaign that had to be fought. Its bloody cost was more than repaid in Normandy's victories weeks later...
While the CRIMSON story of October 19 did accurately represent my genuine concern that a large grant of PBH endowments might be given to religious groups, it did create an unfortunate and misleading impression on two points...
...forward of the Dodge Report, the author said that the Corporation should apply to the courts for instructions. The one aspect "Which has caused the most indignation," Grenville Clark stated, "is the Corporation's efforts to prevent any judicial test of the legal issues." Courts will grant instructions, however, only to trustees who have serious doubts as to their duty, and the Corporation has no doubts. The Arboretum forces argue that it is the nature of the dispute, and not what the trustee thinks, that courts refers to when the trustee thinks, that courts refers to when they speak...