Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pound forsook his country: the U.S. would not leave off rustling its bank notes to listen to him. The separation was final. London listened more attentively. There Pound began to publish his opaque, lapidary, brilliantly polished poems. Some of the literati began to call him the master verse maker of his generation...
...charge that the defendants had planned and waged aggressive war. The corruption of pre-Nazi Germany, the murder of 4,500,000 Jews, the successive invasions, the plunder of Europe and the enslavement of Europeans-all were held to be international crimes because all were part of the master plan of aggressive war. Upon that contention, Justice Jackson repeatedly said, the prosecution's case stood or fell...
...whole statement to the Court was an attempt to meet them. He bluntly said that the charter of the Nürnberg tribunal, completed three months after V-E day, was the ex-post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more courage than legal logic, Jackson faced the basic fact: "It may be said that this is new law, not authoritatively declared at the time they...
Seven days later, the U.S. quarter master at Berlin asked the U.S. quarter master at Frankfurt why the train had not arrived. Frankfurt passed the query on to British headquarters at Lüneburg. Inch by slow inch, yards of red tape unwound. Five days later came the report: the train had passed promptly through the British zone...
...handsome 492-page book, The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (Reynal & Hitchcock; $10), published last week, proved once again that the master was speaking from experience...