Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tone. The greatest surprise were the Russians, who acted more jovially than at any previous international gathering. There were some flurries, such as their request for added police protection of their Glen Cove, L.I. estate, and the occasion, at Flushing, when indomitable Foreign Minister Molotov almost walked straight into a wall where he thought a door should have been. But it was perhaps typical of the new Russian mood that he smilingly permitted himself to be guided along the right path by Interpreter Pavlov, thus avoiding a major clash of unyielding forces...
...Council Report on Parietal Rules was not in the nature of an investigation or an attack. It was prepared, at the request of the College, in order to give a considered opinion on whether or not the present Parietal Rules should be changed. The possibility of instituting more severe rules came up because of a number of recent parietal offenses...
...characterized the new body as "experimental" and "without precedent," so far as he knew in this country. At the request of the Council Dean Wild named Gerald Holton 4G, resident tutor in Winthrop House, to be temporary chairman of the group...
Russia has pending on the provisional agenda a request that the Assembly take up Russia's proposal calling for information on the number of allied troops in alien non-enemy countries. The Security Council recently refused to admit that request to its agenda and Russia is expected to press it to the fullest before the Assembly...
...West's She Done Him Wrong (1933-a "lightheartedly tough and amoral film"), which launched the best known of the West gags ("tall, dark and handsome"; "come up and see me some time"; "the finest lady that ever walked the streets"), has also been shelved-by request of the Hays Office...