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...anti-American opposition, led by India's softspoken, white-thatched Sir Benegal Rau, pressed for continued negotiations. Rau announced that he had received a message from Red China's capital, through the Indian Ambassador, that amplified the Communist counterproposal. Though the message did not seem to lessen Peking's demands for a U.N. surrender, Rau asked that the Assembly's Political & Security Committee adjourn for 48 hours while its implications were studied...
...department also has a second similar machine, doing the same type of work, purchased from funds allotted by the American Meat Institute last fall. Should the theory prove correct, the meat industry hopes to be able to devise a means to lessen the effect of proteins in forming colesterol...
...prove to Asiatic and European nations that the U.S. and the U.N. could not make good on their promises of protection against Red aggression. This would deepen the defeatist tendencies of anti-Communists in Asia and Europe. It would "buy time" and save an army, but it would greatly lessen the chances of ever effectively using the time or the army...
...dropping of Government 1b will not lessen Holcombe's teaching lead, as he will give a new graduate course--not yet selected--in its place...
Commander Porter said: "Well, this is it. Let's go over the side." As the whaleboat pushed off for shore its engine sounded loud and the men instinctively bent low; each reasoned that it might lessen his chance of being seen in the inky blackness. Sixty yards offshore a white headlight seemed to spot the whaleboat for a minute. Then it shifted back inland. All hands flattened in the bottom of the boat. Then they heard the rumble of a freight train heading toward the tunnel that was their target for the night...