Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better position to deal with the consequences of a failure . . . We cannot allow [our foreign policy] to become subject to the fluctuations produced by a raising and lowering of the international temperature. To accept these fluctuations as a guide for our policy would be to put in foreign hands a large measure of control over the conduct of our foreign relations...
...granted a $1,600 fellowship to Hans Freistadt, a University of North Carolina student and an avowed Communist (TIME, May 23). He had an uneasy time of it. And when the Joint Committee was through with him, a Senate subcommittee considering the AEC appropriation seized hapless Chairman Lilienthal and put him on a grill...
...Chicago company put up pickles in 20 flavors of liquor (nonalcoholic). Those who liked their pickles straight could down them and taste bourbon, brandy, rum or Scotch. For mixed-picklers, there were Manhattans, Martinis and Daiquiris...
...Vegas, Nev., which advertises "Fun in the Sun" for tourists, a tribe of New Mexican Jemez Indians put on a rain dance. Next day the rains came...
...Washington, the C.I.O. executive board put a squeeze on the eleven left-wing members it has been trying to purge since last year's convention. It ordered the eleven union leaders to get in line with C.I.O. policies (support of the Marshall Plan, Atlantic pact), get out, or face expulsion from the board at next October's Cleveland convention. The board called on the unions involved (e.g., the United Electrical Workers, the International Longshoremen's Union) to replace their Redline leaders with bosses who would follow C.I.O. policies. The noisy arguments carried out the window...