Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black Array. The fagade of banalities, already cracked, soon crumbled. Next day, Assembly Chairman General Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines, a neat, brisk figure always dressed in immaculate black, was presiding with proud relish when he got the news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note...
While most delegates would agree with Trygve Lie that the U.N. was more than ever "indispensable," none seemed to know what would make it less ineffectual. Delegates could face their problems only in the somber spirit of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson's opening speech to the Assembly...
Rajk was vehement in his protestation of guilt: "I declare in advance that whatever the sentence may be, I shall consider it just." While the sentence was being read, Rajk stood between two grey-uniformed guards, his hands clasped behind his back; spectators close to him saw that he was...
He seemed to want to say more, but the judge cut him off. The spectacle had ended: there was no point in letting Rajk overact his role.
Chancellor Adenauer's government faced plenty of parliamentary fights with its enemies and with its own supporters; but that was not necessarily a cause for worry. In its first days, the new German legislature had behaved no more irresponsibly than any of the Continent's traditionally raucous parliaments...