Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Staff, slipped on his steel-rimmed glasses in the Senate Caucus room last week and took a soldier's look at the North Atlantic Treaty. The diplomats and statesmen had argued out the legal niceties of the pact. Infantryman Bradley skipped the fine print and drove to the main point. In his mild, high-pitched voice, Bradley told the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee: "Our frontiers of collective defense lie in common with theirs [the other treaty nations'] in the heart of Europe...
Once the shell has settled at its regular pace, the main problem is for every man to concentrate on form, power, and timing. The coxswain maintains the latter rudder handles, saving his voice to tell the stroke what beat he is setting and where his boast stands in relation to the opposition...
...report from the Board of Overseers, believed to have recommended reinstatement of Geography, was referred to the Committee on Educational Policy early this term. Buck denied, however, that this report was the main factor in the setting up of the special body. "We've been considering it for longer than that," he said...
Speaking for the Council, Schwebel will urge acceptance of the treaty with seven reservations. His main point will be that the pact should not be turned into a purely regional alliance or be allowed to weaken the UN or take over all of the functions of that body...
While venality in the press is rare enough to be big news whenever it happens, the Thiem-Harris exposé made no headlines in newspapers in other states for two weeks. The main reason was that most of the papers did not know about it; no news service had carried the story. Explained Executive Editor Alan Gould of the Associated Press: "In the beginning, we didn't think it was worth the wire space." Last week, after the A.P. got some calls from clients, it decided the scandal was news, after all, and put out the two-week...