Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked out a new cease-fire plan for Korea. They sent instructions to their delegates on U.N.'s Truce Committee, Canada's Lester Pearson and India's Sir Benegal Rau. Nehru himself hesitated at the last moment before endorsing the plan (since a Chinese rejection would pose the implied obligation to do something about it), but St. Laurent finally won him over...
...three. The Soviet bloc voted against the offer, because Red China and North Korea had not been invited to discuss it. El Salvador and Nationalist China also voted against it, for different reasons. T. F. Tsiang, China's delegate, correctly described the proposal. Snapped he: "The talks will pose only one question to Peking 'How do you like Formosarare, medium, or well done...
...story in Wednesday's CRIMSON about my remarks at a freshman meeting may have given the wrong impression to some of your readers. Since I have no desire to add to the present uncertainty or to pose as an authority on the future of the draft, I would appreciate your publishing a further statement...
Ladd plays a tough badman who, when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...
Cezanne, who took his own measures to insure that his models stayed awake, posed Vollard on a stool precariously balanced on a rickety platform. Even so, the hulking dealer fell asleep and crashed to the floor. Cezanne was furious: "You wretch! You have upset the pose! You should sit like an apple. Who ever saw an apple fidgeting?" After the first 100 sittings, Cezanne cooled off sufficiently to announce: "I haven't done so badly with the front of your shirt...