Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungary, the country's Communist boss, Matyas Rakosi, last week crowed that the Government had been seized "before the U.S. could rub its eyes." Another Communist leader, Zoltan Vas, Hungary's economic dictator, said: "I cannot deny that we have a large number of Hungarian Nazis in our party. But I would rather have them than businessmen or capitalists." Behind closed doors and drawn blinds, Budapesters heard foreign broadcasts telling of President Truman's protest (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that the Soviet maneuver in Hungary was "an outrage...
...writer "presumed ... to take notice of the proceedings of the House" in 1694, he was summoned to the bar, forced to kneel and admit his offense. Not until 1803, in Luke Hansard's day, were reporters given seats of their own in the gallery, instead of having to rub elbows with other "strangers...
Tuesday night, members of the current track team will take time out from the books to rub elbows with Harvard track greats from way back, at the first track banquet in several decades. The dinner is scheduled for 7 o'clock at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...winter season unparalleled in recent years for artistic and financial success, the local thespians--HDC wing--have taken one more step into what must have looked like the blue heaven of prosperity. If the opening performance of their prosperity vehicle is any criterion, however, they are about to rub their eyes and find the stardust quite, quite gone...
Furthermore, Bevin said: "Nothing I agree to politically for Germany can go into effect until a workable settlement has been reached economically." That was the rub. Marshall offered a slight concession to the Russians' demand for reparations from German current production; he declared that the U.S. would "study" the demand on condition: 1) that the Soviets would agree to leave in Germany certain factories originally slated to be removed to Russia and take their reparations only from these factories; 2) that current production reparations must not increase occupation costs, or retard German self-support. Under these terms, Russia, which...