Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through all relations with the U.S. Government, Franks moves with supple grace. In conference, he is concise and convincing. He shuns the tedious insistence of some diplomats on speaking only with the Secretary of State, welcomes fruitful discussion on any level. He has lately achieved a remarkable triumph over his...
Since then, no word of Molotov's current activities has appeared in the Soviet press. For all anyone in the West knows, he could be dead or he could be running Russia. Shrewder guesses: 1) he has been put in charge of the Communists in China and the prospering...
Tottering on the pinnacle of this tower of Babel stands English, the language of the modern intelligentsia, business community and bureaucracy. More than a century ago there had been a nip & tuck d'ebate among India's British masters over a practical official language for their vast colony...
With 50 "Qu' avecs" already built, the general hopes soon to export his cabs all over the Orient. "I will succeed," he admits, "because I am alert. I had to be to become a lieutenant general. After all, Japan spent 500 million yen on my education, counting the cost...
Over the Side. Sleeping off the effects of shipboard merrymaking, many of the 512 passengers-more than 80% of them Americans-never heard the cries of alarm. Some who did groggily dismissed them as the noise from another of the Noronic's boisterous parties. Overwhelmed by the flash fire...