Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another U.N. birthday party last week, a group of less restrained celebrators commented at length, but scarcely said any more. Just four years after the signing of the San Francisco Charter, the U.N.'s General Assembly met in special open-air session at the site of the new U.N. building at the East River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better...
...tense silence the voting began. On the first ballot Yugoslavia got 37 votes, only two less than the necessary two-thirds majority. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj and his colleagues, who sat pale and worried right behind the Russian delegation, began to relax a little. On the second ballot Yugoslavia was elected, with 39 votes. Czechoslovakia got 19 votes, with one abstention...
...which can achieve a working relationship through diplomacy. At the core of his thinking is a 19th Century term-the "balance of power." Wrote Lippmann last month: "There is no alternative to the negotiation of a modus vivendi based on the balance of power and of reciprocal advantages." In less Lippmannese English, this means a hardheaded deal between the U.S. and Russia...
...public platform in Worcester. When it came time for Curley to speak, he rose and presented Ely with a check for $1000 --"to show my sincerity in the effort to elect Mr. Ely." The press the next day went wild, praising Curley for his magnanimity; but Mr. Ely was less enthused. The check had been made payable to the Boston City Committee --to be used by the mayor and not by Mr. Ely for getting out the Boston vote...
...early in the fall, chose to string along with a batch of sophomores up from an excellent freshman team. However, the second-year men (there will be approximately six of them in the starting lineup) have failed to live up to expectations, although their mistakes appear to have become less conspicuous each week...