Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four powers may write a treaty, as a sort of coffin for the bones of Germany. They will not, however, need to buy the coffin. They can rent it temporarily, like the coffins in Berlin. Unless the Russians accept, as they probably will not, the year-old U.S. offer of a control treaty over Germany, the bones of contention in Central Europe will remain uncoffined and unquiet...
Admission. Next morning the tempest he had so casually stirred up broke on Dalton. Tory M.P. Victor Raikes told Dalton that he would ask a question in the House about the tip to the Star. After a routine Cabinet meeting, Dalton took Attlee aside and admitted his indiscretion. He offered his resignation. That afternoon a much subdued Dalton arose in the House of Commons to answer Raikes's question. "I appreciate that this was a grave indiscretion on my part," he intoned, "for which I offer my deep apologies to the House...
...Elis somewhat outmanned but ready for a last ditch fight. Harvard's main offensive punch in 1941 was Don McNichol, a low-slung bucking back of the Lazzaro type and with a gift for passing. McNichol, in fact, was the only genuine offensive weapon that the team had to offer. In order to produce some semblance of the outside threat which the halfbacks could not provide, canny Dick Harlow devised a series of endaround plays featuring Loren MacKinney. Rugged Defense For McNicol...
...make the bomb requires a host of highly developed technological "secrets" which Russia might not have. In time Russia" would have all these little secrets, too. The U.S. understood that the Russians would some day be able to make the bomb. That was one reason why the U.S. had offered free exchange of all information, provided only that subscribing nations submit to international inspection and control of atomic activities. That offer still stood, but the Soviet leaders had repeatedly refused it. Many of Molotov's hearers had not been, told this, but the U.S. editors acted as if their...
...esoteric philosophy that Ouspensky wrote in Russia before World War I and first published in English in the U.S. in 1920. Moscow-born Ouspensky was at that time living in Constantinople. The late Viscountess Rothermere, then in Washington, read Tertium Organum, got "passionately" interested in it, cabled-Ouspensky an offer to sponsor him in England...