Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served as Russia's wartime ambassador to Japan, most recently as deputy foreign minister for Far Eastern Affairs. What comment did he have on the Wallace-Stalin letters? He had not read them. Did he have any message from Stalin? "If General Stalin intends, he himself will send it." Reporters noticed one difference between Malik and Gromyko. When Malik said "No comment"-which he did some 30 times-he smiled...
...will be of 'inestimable value to the box office.' What nonsense! You are playing to capacity: what more do you want? ... As for me, it's ruining me. Under this year's capital levy I have to pay the Exchequer ?147 for every ?100 you send me ... I am longing for it to flop before I am quite penniless, cursing the day you were born...
...record for roundabout communication. A.P. Correspondent Carter Davidson, on the Haganah side of the battle line, was only a few hundred yards across no man's land from A.P. Correspondent Dan De Luce, with the Arab Legion. To communicate with De Luce, Davidson had to send his message via the U.S. consulate to Washington, then to the A.P.'s New York offices, which sent it back to Arab Legion headquarters at Amman, Transjordan, which delivered it to De Luce in Jerusalem. Total straight-line distance: 12,700 miles...
Most Madeira girls go to good colleges (favorites: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr), marry comfortably, and send their daughters back to Madeira. Among past & present Madeirans: Paulina Longworth, Joan Morgenthau, Susan Saltonstall, Diana Hopkins, Laurette Soong (niece of Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...camera shows ground keepers covering the pitcher's box with canvas, then sweeps across the bleachers, singling out soaked fans huddling under newspapers. The key man is the camera director, who must watch on small screens the action of three or four cameras, to decide which image to send over the air at any moment...