Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pandit has a patrician approach. It was a little time, after she arrived in Washington, before she discovered that she did not have full access to the White House and would have to deal with the State Department. Last week, asked by newsmen what her brother's visit might do for Indo-American relations, she snapped back: "The Prime Minister has not shared his mind with me, nor is it customary for a prime minister who desires to have secret talks to discuss them with his ambassador. And you can quote me on that...
...wearily conferred with party leaders, then asked Socialist Minister of the Interior Jules Moch to examine his prospects for forming a cabinet. After the Socialists had had their try, M. Auriol would be free to call on anyone he thought could set up and run a working coalition. He might even call, again, on Henri Queuille...
Last month, when Harry Truman appointed Martha Lucas as a U.S. delegate to the Paris UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today...
Other enthusiasts have worked out the chances of getting hit by meteors. They think it might be well to clothe a space ship with a thin "meteor bumper...
...conservative works. Biggest, and in some ways best, painting in the show was a tumultuous Wild Animal Hunt by Bernard Lorjou, who, at 40, is considered a promising "young" painter in France and has never exhibited in the U.S. To some mid-20th Century eyes, Lorjou's Hunt might look like a wild burlesque of one by Delacroix. But in the mid-19th Century, Delacroix' own hunt pictures had seemed like parodies of Rubens'. Lorjou's muscular distortions and crackling, fiery colors were more emotional than artful, yet there was art in them as well...