Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the slopes of Mount Lebanon last week came a sound like the rattling of scimitars. The Council of the seven-nation Arab League, meeting in a resort hotel overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean, had reached a tactical decision. With eyes on the debate in U.N., they manifestoed: Arab states would "take military precautions on the borders of Palestine." League spokesmen said troops would move up immediately. "Arabs will never accept partition," said Lebanese Premier Riad al-Sulh...
...last symphony concert of the season in the Dutch resort city of Scheveningen. Suddenly, during a Bach violin concerto, Soloist Sam Swaap started scrubbing his fiddle discordantly. Then he stopped cold for a dozen bars, holding his fiddle like a broken toy. After embarrassing moments, Swaap got back on the track. After him on the program came French Pianist Janine Weill. She got midway through the last movement of Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 4, then her fingers became riveted to the keys. The orchestra struggled on by itself for 40 bars before Madame Weill fell...
Privately, top-flight officials admitted that restricting imports would be a form of economic nationalism and a bar to the freer, multilateral trade that Canada seeks for the long haul. "It's shocking-horrible," said one, "but we're doing it only as a last resort and we're going to make it as temporary as we can. Meanwhile, we aren't headed for anything like British austerity. We'll cut down, but we'll still get by and have a good time...
...present rate of decline in student interest persists, Spear foresaw the possibility that lettermen will have to lead their own cheers, in addition to pursuing their activities on the field of honor. At worst, local heroes maybe forced to carry themselves from the field, a difficult task, or resort to old-fashioned walking, a most mundane method of egress...
Judged by assurances at San Francisco that the veto was really a last resort, Parodi had gone rather far. The Russians had proposed to send a U.N. mission to Indonesia to see what was going on between the Indonesians and the Dutch. A majority was agreeable. The French vetoed it because they feared a precedent which might some day lead to similar missions into France's own troubled colonial world. The French seemed to be helping to establish another precedent: that the veto could be used for almost anything, including weak nerves...