Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another example of getting something in return would be to work out our entire raw materials program as a part of our foreign policy. It is well known that we are short of many very important commodities. In formulating our new foreign policy we should seek to obtain the raw materials which we need and do not possess ourselves. This would be helpful to us and to the world and would be a self-respecting solution of several serious problems at one and the same time...
...Show. Unlike most political bosses, he gave nothing in return. Tall, bald and sourfaced, he did not even afford his subjects the dubious pleasure of watching him make public appearances. He made almost no speeches (his grammar was too bad), took no interest in parades, and rode around in a bulletproof Cadillac with windows so small that he could sit back without being seen. He didn't even splurge on a mansion. A bachelor, he lived in a frame house across the street from an automobile scrapyard. He never went off to Florida, Saratoga, or Europe, was never photographed...
...Communists showed their relief. In the Senate palace, Luis Carlos Prestes, Brazil's No. 1 Communist, popped up one afternoon to return some papers to the Commission of Justice, of which he is a member. He explained that he had been "too busy lately" to work on them. One evening in downtown Rio, a group called "The Friends of Paraguay" met to hear a Negro actor read the poems of U.S. leftist Langston Hughes. They were so moved that they soon addressed each other, not as "friend," but as "comrade." In the sultry Vermelinho (The Little...
...Picasso-period had given way to a cool palette of forest hues: grey-green, apricot, lavender, smoky-blue. Marchand now talks violently against Surrealism ("It's good only for decorating the windows of American butcher shops") and believes that French painting is about to leave restless intellectualism and return to nature...
...twin bill with Yale--moved out of the cellar at New Haven yesterday as a result of an even split with the Elis. The Crimson now lies a half-game behind the Bulldogs, and two Harvard victories today, coupled with a win by Penn over Yale at Philadelphia, would return Coach Dolph Samborski's forces to first place...