Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joker. Moreover-and this sent Britons cabling home for instructions-Russia would accept payment for her wares in local currency and spend the money in the country of origin. Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...
...first year was bitterly hard. "Just existing was quite a struggle," recalls Pat Aid. The school grew to 15, then 24 students. The school had to move out of the orphanage, and scrape together $1,700 for a down payment on an empty house. Unable to pay all the bills, the parents appealed for help. They got $181 from a rummage sale, $800 from a Spokane summer theater, a $500 loan from a doctor. It cost about $300 per semester to teach each retarded child, and the bills kept piling up. For three months Patricia Aid got no pay; once...
...Christman: "Well, you take Truman, when he went into office he made many promises. For instance: one thing the presstrill and taxes with the nextren. of intramat, to make payment for the fray-sted or less than other Presidents, didn't he?" Lady: "Well, at the time he got into office, he thought he could do all the things he said he could. Then he found out he couldn't. It wasn't all up to him, either." Christman: "But he did make the definite statement that when he traysnod the vaus, and snapid for the boys...
...read every scrap he could find about the painter, down to details on what kind of brushes artists used in the 17th century. As the domineering father in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, he became intolerably high & mighty around his own home. When he acted the murderer in Payment Deferred, he got so morose he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Says Korda of these soul struggles: "What he needs is not a director but a midwife...
...first meeting will take place in Sanders Theatre at 4 p.m. this afternoon, and will be open to the public upon the payment of a small registration fee. Ending the proceeding Saturday afternoon at a luncheon meeting. Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, will speak on "Teaching That Excites...