Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitdown Walkout. At last, Baruch accepted a Canadian amendment to send the report back to a working committee with instructions to pay due heed to the U.S. "principles," but to bring the phrasing into harmony with the Assembly's disarmament resolution-a document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...
...assist from Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, bungled the announcement of another resignation. As a matter of courtesy, Vice President Harold D. Smith thought he ought to hand in his resignation, let the new president keep him or name a new vice president. But the bungling announcements did not mention that Smith actually wanted to stay...
LIKE MANY A MISSOURIAN I GROAN TO NOTE YOU MENTION [TIME, DEC. 2] "PACKING 2O,OOO KANSANS INTO THE KANSAS CITY PHILHARMONIC CONCERT HALL...
...Poet Spender discovered any such talent, he makes no mention of it. European Witness is in the main a routine travelogue. It has flashes of fancy poesy ("poignant deep-green fields through which homesickness seems to bleed with a dark stain of greenish blood"), and a full share of the pedestrian details that pad out most travel books ("During the [week] days I went for three walks . . . once to the Cloisters of the Nikolaskirche, once to the Poppelsdorfer Schloss and once to the Beethovenhaus, which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive...
Other Crimson Varsitymen who figured in the selections were scatback Chip Cannon, whose six-point total was a scant two points short of a first team slot, and ends John Florentino and Wally Fiynn, center Jack Fisher, and backs Vince Moravec and Ralph Petrillo who received honorable mention...