Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin & Cripps would argue that Britain's ultimate aim, like America's, was a competitive, freer-trading world outside what Bevin calls "the ruble area." But they would also defend Britain's present bilateral trade deals with other countries (e.g., Argentina) as an unavoidable expedient so long as the dollar shortage lasts. They would have a fairly shrewd notion of the American climate of opinion, of what they might ask and expect to receive...
...seemed likely that a series of short-range adjustments, like a shovelful of gravel under a skidding wheel, might help pull Britain out of the immediate financial mudhole in which she was floundering. There would be more mudholes ahead; to meet them, the conference might set up a long-range approach through a permanent Anglo-American staff for economic cooperation...
...christening ceremony and the photographers' floodlights had been a little too much last December for Prince Charles of Edinburgh. He had howled loud and long. But he was older now, all of nine months. Last week, without the moral support of the presence of his mother, Princess Elizabeth, he stood up well under the ordeal of his first boughten haircut at Birkhall, near Balmoral, Scotland, where the royal family is vacationing. His golden locks were trimmed enough to give him "a young gentleman's appearance" by Felix West, of Trumper's, London, who also cuts the hair...
...waters off their southern coast, Korean fishermen last week snared a giant sea turtle-5 ft. long, perhaps 1,000 years old. They poured three crocks of wine down its gullet, sent it off to Seoul...
Acheson yielded-reluctantly. He decided that if Congress wanted to force the money on him, he would not openly oppose it, so long as the legislation did not require him to spend it through the Nationalist government...