Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward postponement because of a leftist boycott; chancelleries puzzled what to do next with Rightist Dictators Franco and Perón. The Danes politely asked Russia to loosen her grip on Bornholm island; the Iranians despairingly saw her extend her grip on Azerbaijan; the Turks were once again the object of a Moscow war of nerves...
...combinations of keys, wheels, metallic leaves and tubular women sell well to people who like to take their machine-age art neat. Mostly he confines himself to blacks, greys, and eye-stopping poster reds and yellows. Says he: "Nowadays a work of art must bear comparison with any manufactured object. The artistic picture is false and out of date...
...should object very strongly to describing God as a 'fact,' " says the liberal theologian. "The Supreme Value would surely be a less inadequate description. It is hardly...
...lady who sells face powder and buys horseflesh, Elizabeth Arden Graham, money is no object. She paid $34,000 for Colony Boy, $26,000 for Star Pilot, and with the help of her topflight trainer became racing's biggest pursewinner ($589,170) last year. Somehow, a horse named Knockdown, costing only $2,000, sneaked into her lush stables. Last week, in the richest race for three-year-olds ever run, the poor relation led all the way, and romped home the winner in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby...
Fadeaway Father. At first, the psychiatrist seemed to John to be just a pleasantly "anonymous" object. Later, he seemed like the real father John had always wanted. At last, he just seemed to fade away-and so did John Brown, the spineless misfit who drank too much, walked with a cringing stoop and wanted the girl he loved to be his mother rather than his wife. Into John Brown's shoes stepped self-confident Jake Braunowitz, who no longer hated his family, because he understood their desperate struggle, who no longer hated the world, because he believed that...