Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bare four days before the opening of Prague's International Music Festival, music-loving Czechs got an impressive answer to a question they had been asking for a year: Whom will the Russians send? The answer came in a red-starred C-47 direct from Moscow: Russia had sent thin, 40-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the world's five greatest living composers...
Being in communication with so many people, he is the object of a large and enthusiastic response in kind. TIME readers write in just to say they were happy to hear from him; others, on vacation or traveling abroad, send him all sorts of remembrances, from stamps & prints to African tribal drums. One reader, who had some harsh words to say, wrote them down on a two-foot asbestos shingle. Another advised from Australia that his daughter was on her way to attend school in the U.S. and that he could think of no safer escort from dockside to schoolsite...
seest, write in a book and send it unto...
...into the hands of U.S. customers must come from the U.S. itself. One means is the spending of American tourists abroad. The U.S. could also return some of its ocean trade to foreign bottoms, and pay for the service in dollars. Tariffs could be lowered and U.S. businessmen could send capital abroad in the form of foreign investments. But lower tariffs, loans and shipping in. foreign bottoms are all politically unpopular (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the absence of any overall program, most economists guess that the dollar crisis will arrive by year's end and the present boom...
...Austin basement. But the state concentrated on defending segregation as such. Texas Dean B.F. Pittenger argued: "The attitude of Texans being what it is, the effect of abandoning segregation . . . would set back public education in Texas." Rather than let children mingle with Negroes, he said, white parents would send them to private schools...