Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that mean that ECA wanted none of the grain from bulging River Plate elevators? Not exactly, answered Hensel, but Argentina would have to "go out and get the market"-i.e., bargain with the U.S. ECA's terms: 1) no more price-gouging (Eire recently paid $6.85 a bushel for Argentine wheat-July futures at Chicago are now $2.31); 2) no more state trading practices such as have throttled U.S. business firms in Argentina; 3) a pledge that Argentina will underwrite some of the costs of feeding Europe...
...youth." The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Centre, the Saint Jean Baptiste Society and the Society of Nocturnal Adoration all rallied to the bishop, ignored the fact that when the Archbishop of Quebec, Monsignor Maurice Roy, was Bishop of Trois-Rivières, he held that mixed bathing was none of the church's business...
Lita Grey, tiger-eyed second of Charlie Chaplin's four wives, was having none of this backing & filling: she decided to sue third husband Arthur Day for divorce after ten years because her new career (as a peripatetic nightclub singer) made things impractical...
...paintings and drawings, done on the Riviera in 1946, had none of the nightmare violence that characterized Picasso's wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner and slept under the trees. The one warlike note was a comic-strip series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists...
Comparing their operation with topectomy, the Temple doctors point out that none of their patients has become childish, undisciplined, or had epileptic-like convulsions. They are not yet ready to draw final conclusions, but believe that thalamotomy has proved its ability to "produce definite changes in personality and to relieve anxiety, emotional tension and allied symptoms...