Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such well-intentioned enthusiasts as Teitgen tried to march too fast. This was just what the sponsors of the Strasbourg movement had feared might happen. Before he left for a breather at Nice, Churchill himself championed the go-slow view. "We must not attempt on our present electoral basis," he said, "to challenge the powers that belong to the duly constituted national parliaments founded directly upon universal suffrage. Such a course would be premature...I will not prejudge the work of the committee (drafting unification plans), but I hope they will remember Napoleon's saying 'A constitution must...
Meanwhile, Siam remains a land of cheerful people who hate to admit that things may one day change. Skinny Seni Pramoj, Siam's wartime ambassador to the U.S., recently quipped: "There's nothing wrong with Siam. We just happen to have contentment instead of iceboxes. But there's something wrong with the world...
...names on the program at Chicago's Ravinia Park were familiar enough; Chicagoans had heard Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky as brilliant, and highly individual, soloists. All summer, musical Chicago had been wondering what would happen when the three virtuosos got together in a trio for the first time...
...read the letters to her and wrote her replies. 'Within the morning,' he told me, 'everybody had heard about it.' They called on her one by one, looked at the letters, which they could not read, and talked about them. Some thought nothing would happen. Others, like Luigi Ottavia, who knew something of Americans, reassured Lucia that 'something will come of this...
...while Communist armies moved relentlessly down from the north, U.S. businessmen had gathered at the long, polished bar of the Shanghai American Club for cocktails, a few rolls of liar's dice and endless conversation on the one question paramount in the mind of every Shanghailander: What would happen when the Communists took over? Many had thought that there might be a change for the better: the Communists would at least bring "order." By last week, most U.S. businessmen believed they had their answer. It was not so rosy as most of them had expected...