Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longing of all Germans for a closer community. His apparent strategy: using Berlin as his lever, to conclude a Big Four peace treaty over Germany that would leave to the "mutual consent" of the Germans their future status. Not reunification but "confederation" would be his offer, and, in return for normalizing conditions between the two Germanys, Communist East Germany would achieve some form of legitimacy...
...Spayth was hunting for a successor with a characteristically flip and frank tactic. WANTED-A SUCKER LIKE I WAS, read his want ad in the Publishers' Auxiliary, a Chicago trade paper. Spayth's scheme: to hire someone willing to work as hard as he does, in return for a regular salary plus weekly lOUs that would be converted into a down payment on the paper. Spayth's condition: "The closing of title to take place 24 hours after my carcass cools off, with the balance due being secured by first mortgage in favor of my heirs...
...cartoon in the Chicago Sun showed Artur Rodzinski sailing high over the Chicago skyline astride a musical note. His grey mane streamed in the wind; one hand clutched a baton. Above his smiling face loomed a defiant caption: "I shall return...
Curley was deeply touched by their generosity and good judgment; he presented each of them, in return, with an autographed document. But when his visitors asked for more signed doctuments for other members of their students' committee, the Mayor began to smell a rat. He noticed that they didn't talk like anyone from B.C. that he knew. And indeed they didn't. They were prospective members of the Harvard Lampoon out about the pranks that characterize that magazine's bi-annual Fools' Week. As for the urn, it was and remains the sturdy and much-used punch bowl usually...
...meeting is over, and the various participants return to their rooms presumably to recommence work on their projects or to read independently. Yet the Torch Room still reeks of smugness, and the "clubby atmosphere" (to quote one of the Scholars) has not filtered through the windows...