Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The barman at Harry's New York Bar on the Rue Daunou ran a moody eye over his orderly customers, wiped a glass and remembered sadly, "We used to have four times as many Americans in here. They drank four times as much and got into four times as...
The Americans over whom Harry's barman gloomed were outnumbered this year by half a million Britons, 900,000 Belgians, 400,000 Swiss, 150,000 Scandinavians and 90,000 Spaniards. The 200,000 from the U.S., however, had left some $78 million behind to provide France with her biggest...
"We will speak English," he said. "I only speak a little but we will get on." He beckoned me to sit down in a large armchair, leaned over and asked me cheerfully: "What do they say in America about my fight with the Cominform?" I replied: "They are very much...
Secretary Acheson, who is smarting under criticism of his White Paper on China (TIME, Aug. 15), and grows steadily more emotional over the Chinese Nationalist regime, jumped to the conviction that the Republican amendment would earmark aid for the Nationalists, and gave no weight to the larger idea of harassing...
St. Laurent hesitated, then asked the advice of the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop pf Quebec. The cardinal urged him to take the job, pointing out that as a symbol of national unity in wartime it was important to have a prominent French Canadian in the cabinet. On the day...