Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point he erred. He denied that, after Chambers' first charges against him, John Foster Dulles had asked him to resign as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dulles came later to the stand to correct Hiss's recollection. With his memory bolstered by a written record of the conversation, Dulles, chairman of the trustees of the endowment, swore that he had told Hiss he thought he should resign...
...everyone suspected Hermann Göring had set himself. Dimitrov, acting as his own attorney, alone in a hostile courtroom and a hostile country, fought Göring with courage. "I am not here to be questioned by you, you scoundrel!" cried Government Witness Göring at one point...
High prices, the world's shift from a sellers' to a buyers' market and the reluctance of foreign traders to buy British as long as rumors persisted that Britain would devalue the pound, had cut deeply into Britain's dollar and gold reserves. The danger point, many Britons had long thought, would be reached if the reserves fell below ?500 million. Last week they stood at closer to ?400 million. To Cripps's many critics it looked as if the crisis was the final proof that his policies should be scrapped. They renewed their demands...
...Averell Harriman, Belgium's Spaak and some other continental delegates have been seeking to liberalize the arrangement on drawing rights so it would become a greater stimulus to intra-European trade. At one point French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche proposed a compromise, known in OEECese as "40% transferability of drawing rights." Under the Petsche plan, a typical triangular trade situation would have worked out like this...
...Point of No Return - John P. Marquand...