Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was wonderful almost everywhere. Skyscraper, silo and factory stack stood sharply against October's bright blue sky. Nights held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass. Lakes lay dark and still and the sound of an ax or a distant locomotive carried for miles on the tranquil...
...note was sounded most clearly in his elaboration of his foreign policy. In Portland and at Seattle, he had warned foreign aggressors abroad not to mistake a domestic political campaign for the symptoms of disunity. 'At Great Falls, Mont., he said: "The totalitarian states must not misunderstand what is happening here . . . When we change our national Administration next January, as I firmly believe we will, it will be for the purpose of strengthening our country, cementing our national unity, and waging the peace with greater skill and effectiveness . . . And let no dictator or trigger-happy militarist anywhere make...
This week U.N. finally reached the Berlin problem. Again Russia's position was based upon unlimited national sovereignty. In trying to act on Berlin, said the Russians, U.N. was interfering with the sovereignty of the big powers. In a formal note, Moscow declared that a lot of "false noise was raised" by the Western powers, proposed that the Berlin issue be returned to the Big Four. The West rejected the note and the Security Council started its debate. Cried Vishinsky: "Gentlemen, you have come to the wrong address ... I object to the inclusion of this item on the agenda...
...answered Lancer. "You have shot a German and I must have a written note of apology sent to me. Then we will deliver the motorcycle...
...note of color will be added to the Harvard squad by Van Peborgh who halls from Buenos Aires and plays polo in gancho garb...