Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House's action did not mean that it had bought the Administration foreign aid program lock, stock & barrel. But it did demonstrate a growing interest in the stock. The House was ready to take another step-to send a 19-man House committee to Europe to have a look for itself and study the lock and barrel...
...didn't. Wary Democratic officeholders avoided Fresno last week as though it were a poison-ivy patch. Henry Wallace himself was too cagey to send greetings. Among the 300-odd delegates who did show up, Kenny whipped up enough enthusiasm to start Wallace organizations going in 16 of the state's 23 congressional districts. The organizations would probably collect enough signatures to land a Wallace delegation on the ballot...
Arthur discovered a talent for preaching. One day, a lay preacher in the town fell ill and asked Arthur to take his place. From then on, though he was only 16, his fluent voice began to echo through the Welsh valleys. Old Jim skimped to send the youngster to a Baptist training college...
Right along, Maniu had seen what was coming. In 1945, when Britain's Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (now Lord Inverchapel) and the U.S.'s Averell Harriman "guaranteed" democratic rights in Rumania, Maniu had asked Harriman: "If the prefect of Constantsa falsifies the election list, will Britain send her fleet? The U.S. mobilize her army?" In 1947 Maniu answered himself: "The prefect of Constantsa did falsify the list. But there was no sign of the British fleet, no sound of American mobilization. Instead the prefect of Constantsa is still in office...
Said Agency President Miller: "I think everybody should have a chance to do the things they've always wanted to do, but never had the opportunity." To his stenographer's weekly letters, he will send biweekly replies (with her pay check), just to let her know how things are going...