Word: pinnings
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...Western envoys vainly try to pin Molotov down to a draft agreement incorporating the talks with Stalin...
Meanwhile, at University Hall, the mechanical difficulties seemed to be contagious. Late Saturday, one of two IBM calculators blew a main pin while sorting exams and clattered to a stop. Sunday afternoon its twin came up with the same complaint and abruptly creased to tabulate exam results...
...currency was announced, all stock exchange transactions were frozen. The day before the announcement, a traders' pool, working on inside information, dumped 30 million shares on the market in what Shanghai papers dubbed "Operation Giant Bear." Promptly arrested as broker for the deal was Tu Vee-pin, son of Tu Yueh-sheng, president of Shanghai's stock exchange and one of the most powerful men in Shanghai. Big merchant hoarders and price riggers were also pulled...
...INTENTIONS: "When you see me standing up there, mumbling to myself ... all dressed up in silk like a great pin cushion, you mustn't think of me as something quite apart, at a distance from you, uninterested in your feelings and your concerns. On the contrary, I am standing there like a great pin cushion for you to stick pins into me-all the things you want ... for yourself ... are part of the prayer that I am saying, and I couldn't prevent them being part of my intentions in saying the Mass, even if I wanted...
Then, for more than six hours, the committee's questioners tried to pin Alger Hiss down to fine details. Lawyer Hiss, a Harvard Law School graduate and a onetime secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes, was not an easy man to pin down. He was cool, deliberate and professional, at times tripping up and correcting his questioners, at all times insisting on giving a precise answer. Knowing better than anyone that a possible perjury charge hung on his every word, he almost never offered a flat yes or a flat no. His favorite phrase, as he fenced tediously with...