Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of the voting, Masaryk, accompanied by Russia's Andrei Gromyko, turned up in the office of the Assembly President, Brazil's suave Oswaldo Aranha, and announced that Czechoslovakia did not choose to run. Gromyko said that the Ukraine would be a candidate instead. Latin American delegates then agreed to support the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky. This did not indicate any love of Russia south of the border (see LATIN AMERICA). The Latins assumed that the U.S. was willing to see the Security Council go on voting 9 to 2. In any case, the stumbling block...
...Latins were somewhat startled when the U.S. turned up voting for India's unpredictable Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Eleven ballots have been taken, including two this week, and neither Manuilsky nor Mrs. Pandit has won the necessary two-thirds vote, because the Latin Americans and the rest of the Western bloc are split...
Last week a Latin American delegate said: "We don't get it. When Manuilsky votes with the Russians that requires no explanation back home. But when Mrs. Pandit votes with them, as she often will, that will hurt us. Why doesn't the U.S. delegation send somebody around to explain its insistence on Mrs. Pandit? It looks a little stupid...
Rape & Non-Fiction. In his younger days, Huntington ranged all over the world-to the Near East, Latin America, Chinese Turkestan-always compounding generalizations to explain why human beings, provoked by weather and geography, behave as they do. He kept an eye open for such relevant material as the relation of rape to the seasons (highest in June); the proportion of non-fiction lent by U.S. public libraries (lowest in the South); the relation of climate to monotheism (it does best in deserts...
...year-old Billy James left Ireland with "a very small sum of money" and a Latin grammar. When he died in 1832, the $3,000,000 he left his heirs (from public utilities and real estate) was the second largest fortune *in the State of New York. One of his 13 children, whose name was Henry, decided to use his inheritance to cultivate his passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk...