Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bolton will be charged with assault with intent to kill, along with two as yet unnamed accomplices. Police were sure of one thing. Bolton did not have $15,000 to offer from his own pocket...
...made to deprive two and one-half million men, women & children of medicines and food and fuel and clothing . . . may seem to some a small matter. But . . . we cannot be callous to the suffering of millions . . . We are well aware of course that . . . the Soviet authorities made an offer to feed all of Berlin ... nearly a month after the blockade had been imposed . . . The German population recognized [the offer] for the political bribery...
Western reconciliation with Franco would be a serious blow to the West's moral position. Red propaganda would offer it as proof that Western democracy is fascism in disguise. These political liabilities of friendship with Franco seem to outweigh the advantage of advance agreement on bases...
...Strapontins. So far, the Communist spider had not walked into the fly's parlor. Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, however, was maneuvering so that he could take full advantage of an offer from Herriot & Co. whenever they were willing to pay his price. His present tactics called for grèves tournantes-revolving strikes -which hit one industry after another, creating enough damage to offset ECA help to France but limited enough to hold the door open to overtures from Herriot...
Playwright Maxwell Anderson, who once bought advertising space in a newspaper to strike back at the critics who had panned his latest play (Truckline Café in 1946), explained in the New York Herald Tribune why the American theater has gone to pot: "Moving pictures offer a cheap substitute; wars have damaged our morals, our manners and our taste; our whole western civilization grows doubtful of itself . . . But," he added, nursing his old wounds, "when a playwright [is] . . . publicly whipped, flayed alive, drawn, quartered . . . by every theatrical commentator, that's an experience that can drive good playwrights as well...