Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return concessions were the rub. People all over the world now believe that governments are responsible for a lot of things-even down to the corners of a beer-bottle label-that used to be none of a government's business. The program for "freer" world trade ran smack into the program for "secure" economic systems...
Cars, coats, watches, and sundry other items lost, found or for sale form the bulk of the classified advertisements, but every now and then some captivating little item appears which makes readers stop and rub their eyes...
...member of the Berlin Magistral recently stopping in for a Heissgetränk (hot brew) at an ancient, smoke-blackened wine cellar saw a sight that made him rub his eyes. Around a table sat a group of middle-aged men, some bemonocled, some with pince-nez, all with wide silk bands of green, white and gold across their chests. Before them stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most...
...period in American-Soviet relations since the war, the icy implications of the Spitzbergen controversy tend to drive home some basic truths about the state of the peace. If optimists are deluded into believing that all is to be sweetness and light between Washington and the Kremlin they must rub their eyes hard in view of this recent Soviet demand. The logic behind the Russian demand seems to hint that something more than psychology, something more than sympathy, something more than mere patience must be part of the State Department outlook toward the Soviets...
...Okanogan, Wash., a minister of the Gospel was charged with grand larceny. The rub: one Sunday in November, he stole a private plane to fly to services in Spokane...