Word: rested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears. His courtesy and rocklike equanimity in answering every question Eliot and Mrs. Brine put to him were most impressive. Rivera, in turn, was impressed by Mrs. Brine's almost continuous note-taking. Whenever she stopped recording his conversation, it worried him. Once, when she paused for a rest during a discussion of Rivera's experiences in the U.S., he gestured toward her notebook. "No," she explained, "we can't possibly print everything...
...Administration, which wanted a two-year extension and stricter controls, glumly accepted the compromises as the best it could get. But what was safe enough for the rest of the country was not safe enough for the Congressmen themselves. Taking no chances, the House passed a rent-control bill for the District of Columbia (where about half the members of Congress are tenants), freezing rent ceilings for the next 15 months, retaining controls on hotel apartments, and allowing no second guessing by local boards...
...loyal as any American who walks this earth ... no one who knows him would hesitate to trust him with any secret this nation might have . . . he is a great American." In his interim appointment, new Senator Graham will serve until 1950, may then try to be elected for the rest of the term...
...want to try to build a free and stable country. It is impossible to do both. If we want the former, we should not talk of democracy, we should not encourage political parties, we should see that the Germans won't produce more and live better than the rest of Europe. And we should never have gone to Bonn. But if we want to see Germany a free and stable country, we must take the risk of giving Germany's democrats-such as they are-a reasonably strong government that can command some respect and get things done...
While Foo debated where to go, Premier Ho and the rest of his cabinet picked five men to carry Nationalist China's peace hopes to the Communists. As nominal head of the delegation they named General Chang Chih-chung, former governor of Sinkiang Province and commander of Nationalist headquarters in northwest China. A close friend of China's No. 2 Communist, General Chou Enlai, he was the only important member of former Premier Sun Fo's cabinet the Reds failed to tag as a war criminal. Another member: soprano-voiced Shao Li-tse, a former ambassador...