Word: grantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply was courageous, and it kept Norway's feet on the ground. It told Russia placidly that Norway would investigate the conditions for joining the Atlantic pact, that she would not grant bases to foreign powers unless attacked "or subjected to threats of attack...
...summer resort and the locale of one of the finest beaches on the Maine coast. Charles Plaisted was born in his father's home on nearby Cider Hill and, like him, became a farmer and a Democrat. He has voted in every Presidential election since 1872 (Ulysses S. Grant v. Horace Greeley). He married the girl next door, and they were together for 64 years until she died. Although his nephews now run the 125-acre dairy farm, "Uncle Charlie" insists on doing his share. He likes to work. Last summer he helped with the haying and last fall...
Britain's balky, bumbling Foreign Secretary Bevin had been urged by the U.S. to grant recognition before the Israeli elections last week, in order to encourage the Israeli moderates against the extremists. But Bevin stubbornly refused to be hustled. As it turned out, the Israeli moderates did well anyway...
...gallerygoers would find anything "classic" in Arp's latest sculptures, but hose who looked at them long enough might be willing to grant his carvings a calm, impersonal sort of beauty like that of odd-shaped pebbles on a beach. In On My Way, Arp had hit upon a deceptively simple justification for his own work and for abstract art in general. Art, said he, should be as natural as the fruits of the earth, "but whereas the fruit of a plant never resembles a balloon or a president in a cutaway suit, the artistic fruit...
...purpose of the Institute is to help finance teaching, research, publication, libraries, and museums in Chinese universities and to grant scholarships at Harvard to worthy Chinese students. Besides the main branch at Peking, the Institute maintains other offices throughout China...