Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Riding home in my 'present car,' which the Rapid Transit System undoubtedly purchased years before I was born, I read the second paragraph [about the typical TIME-reading man], looked down at one of my two summer suits (a greasy pair of overalls) and then read on, looking hopefully for exceptions. I found none. Nevertheless, I hung on my strap and continued reading TIME, as I have been doing for years...
...Instrument. Since the U.S. had no veto power, all Cavendish Cannon could have done (and that might have been plenty) would have been to present the U.S.'s case loudly and firmly. He was not the man for that...
...gold and silver worth $50. The total take, $57,800, would pay his personal food bill for 395 years. Says his caterer, who was once maitre d'hotel at London's Grosvenor House: "The food he consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary, to Hyderabad for some papers. As a gesture of gratitude the Nizam handed Beaumont a present-a $2.50 pen & pencil...
Premier David Ben-Gurion suggested a compromise: Tsur Israel (Rock of Israel). Zisling still objected. Said he: "Let it not be imposed upon those who believe otherwise ... to say faith in the Rock of Israel . . . The present wording forces upon us an expression of belief to which we do not subscribe." Ben-Gurion had the last word: "Each of us in his own way believes in the Rock of Israel as he understands it. I know what is the Rock of Israel upon which I rely. I am sure that Rabbi Fishman knows well in whom he believes...
...believes that both independence and statehood are best forgotten while the island builds up its economic health. His platform: industrialization, expansion of the social legislation which he wrote in the days before Governor Rexford G. Tugwell* arrived, a new Pureto Rican constitution by revision or replacement of the present Organic Act-to provide that no changes shall be made in Puerto Rico's governmental system without consulting the islanders...