Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Great Pleasure. This was an explicit reaffirmation of the present bipartisan foreign policy, adding China and the internationalization of the Ruhr. What
...defended in Europe ... I simply say that England is an island. I can't do anything about that, neither can she. And I say to you that Europe is not an island but a continent . . . The natural center of a defense plan is France. But for the present, France is hardly present. The problem of European defense will have to be reconsidered when France has a real government...
...street cleaners went on strike at the Communists' call. It was a strike in sympathy for municipal white-collar workers who had also walked out. Suddenly, the street cleaners remembered that an Italian law forbids "sympathy" and political strikes. Hastily, they trumped up some "legitimate" wage demands (their present wages are equivalent or superior to those of Roman high-school teachers). Exclaimed Communist Francesco Giacinti, one of the strike leaders: "The government has raised the price of bread but not of lipstick . . . We're fighting for our daily bread...
Very little is known at the present moment of the strength or style of play of Leicester...
...film, "The Eternal Return," the French writer Jean Cocteau explains that the title is borrowed from Nietzsche, and that it means great legends of the past may re-occur without their participants being aware of it. with this interesting idea in mind, M. Cocteau has chosen to present the Tristan-Iseult legend in contemporary settings and in something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily as if it were in today...