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...Huff. Walkouts and boycotts are by now a familiar, if unpleasant, occurrence to the U.N. But this was the first time a government had gone so far as to pull out its entire delegation and to suggest out loud that it would consider withdrawing from the world organization. U.N. diplomats were stunned by the radical method France had chosen to resist any international meddling in the affairs of the North Africa territory that for more than a century has been administered as a part of metropolitan France...
With the members so evenly divided, it was obvious that the General Assembly would be unable to summon up a two-thirds majority to make any recommendations on Algeria. Indeed, had the French chosen to remain and maneuver instead of flying off in a huff that was more suggestive of guilty conscience than outraged innocence, they might well have persuaded a few delegates to change their minds and thereby table debate of the Algerian case indefinitely...
...Clayton that a friend of his had the gall to kiss her, she was heartbroken to hear her husband chuckle. "Did he? Good old Brookie!" Clayton was ardent only for a male heir. When Elinor presented him with a second daughter, he took off for Monte Carlo in a huff and dropped ?10,000 at cards and roulette. Elinor put her seething romantic frustrations into bestsellers such as The Reflections of Ambrosine, The Vicissitudes of Evangeline (U.S. title: Red Hair...
...West, already an established London painter by 1775, preferred to remain in England. John Trumbull at 19 was an aide-de-camp to Washington and had viewed the battle on Bunker's Hill through field glasses from his post in Roxbury, but he resigned his commission in a huff and later departed for London. Gilbert Stuart, then 19, got away in the spring of 1775 aboard the last ship to escape the embargo in Boston Harbor. John Singleton Copley, best portraitist in the colonies, was a Tory sympathizer who left Boston in 1774, never returned...
...first-rate ensemble, talked of grandiose plans for the future of the Houston Symphony, e.g., to up the budget to $700,000 in five years and tour Europe and the U.S. These ideas sounded too ambitious even for Miss Ima's board. Fricsay left Houston in a huff last December, and last week, touring Switzerland on midwinter vacation, he cabled that his rheumatic arm would prevent his return for the scheduled spring season...