Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Shift. On the evening of July 4, 1946, V. M. Molotov had said: "Tozhe ne vozrazhayu-I, too, do not object." The other delegates thought that sentence ended ten months of wrangling over convocation of the Peace Conference. But the worst was ahead. Next day, Molotov, as one American delegate put it, "seemed to be oozing vast gobs of grey sweat." He returned with tight-lipped truculence to the Soviet position of blocking the peace. First, he insisted on excluding China from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept...
...whole committee, in person, on Tuesday. Seldom has a group been composed of students more serious in intention or more responsible as heads of various student activities. Seldom has an issue been more important or less controversial in the University community than question of price control. The committee's object was simply to bring out into the open, for the benefit of legislators in Washington, a concrete expression of the latent convictions held by nearly all students...
...object," said Lieut. General Sir Alan G. Cunningham, High Commissioner of Palestine, "is to restore those conditions of order without which no progress can be made toward a solution of the problem of Palestine." In fact, the object was the broadly based Jewish underground Haganah, responsible for illegal immigration of Jews, which has worked closely with the Jewish Agency. Haganah has insisted that its wellarmed, well-organized secret army exists only for self-defense against possible Arab attack...
...bears" [TIME, June 10]. We'd like to be heard, all right, but I didn't know anyone was listening. I'm a mama bear myself and there are thousands like me. I have never bought anything from the black market, and I should object to being compelled to do so if excessive prices are legalized by the removal of OPA regulations. It will still smell like a black market to me, and I shall refuse to buy anything except bear necessities. . . , Unfortunately, a buyers' strike cannot provide an adequate solution. How can I strike when...
They are the uncompromising writers. As they grow up, they go on looking at people and things as they did when they were children, with a certain ulterior fixity of attention. The nervous and jovial object in the living room is Uncle Alfred, yes; but they cannot let it go at that; neither can they stop trying to define other things they see and feel. They are the writers who are born artists, and early in life this is apt to be a troublesome condition. It is a fact that they might write something exciting, one day to be regarded...