Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duly constituted national parliaments founded directly upon universal suffrage. Such a course would be premature...I will not prejudge the work of the committee (drafting unification plans), but I hope they will remember Napoleon's saying 'A constitution must be short and obscure...' We may just as well see what a girl looks like before we marry...
Handsome, auburn-haired Emma Dubinsky keeps a sharp eye on her husband's occasional extravagances, and reminds him that though he may be a demigod at the office, he is just a husband at home. Recently, the I.L.G.W.U. bought Dubinsky a Cadillac. He is delighted with it, but Emma Dubinsky is wary. "That's all we need," she says. "Dubinsky with a liveried chauffeur...
Meanwhile, Siam remains a land of cheerful people who hate to admit that things may one day change. Skinny Seni Pramoj, Siam's wartime ambassador to the U.S., recently quipped: "There's nothing wrong with Siam. We just happen to have contentment instead of iceboxes. But there's something wrong with the world...
...Candy rationing, ended by the Labor government in a burst of optimism (TIME, May 2), was clamped back on last week. The planners had figured wrong: Britain was hungrier for candy than they had thought, and supplies on hand soon ran out. The new ration was the same as before: four ounces a week. To Britain's melancholy moppets that meant a couple of four-inch chocolate bars or a small bag of gumdrops...
...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...