Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much-touted, multi-party government can be given than in the extreme reluctance of the minority interests to enter it. The Kuomintang negotiated for months to bring in the haggling splinter groups. Even after trading had supposedly finished, the small parties were evidently none too happy about their lift to power. Two members of the Social Democrats dropped out of the slate after they had been officially nominated to the supposedly all-powerful State Council...
...condition that he be gone only for the time "strictly necessary." (Señora Ricardo F. de Silva of Los Angeles, Calif, called to tell him that if he would visit L.A. he would be given a Mexican flag so big that 300 men would be needed to lift...
Shubert got permission to lift music from any Puccini opera so long as he mixed nobody else's music in with it. The terms raised such a hue & cry that Attorney General Tom Clark rushed into print with an explanation. The U.S. had reserved a veto: if Shubert's score was not up to Puccini's "high artistic standards," the deal...
...could be. Once, when asked his supreme ambition, he replied simply: "Write, if I had the brains." Allen's output of writing during the last 14 years has been bulky, at least. "I am probably the only man," he says, "who has written more than he can lift...
...Haya de la Torre: "We need their wheat and meat." Perón has already promised Chile $175,000,000 to tie her to Argentina in bonds of trade. Bolivia's new Government got another $62,500,000. Peru might be due for the next lift...