Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru has inherited. Nehru, moreover, believes in industrialization and irrigation and vast schemes; Bhave believes in self-denial and spinning wheels. After Bhave's triumph in Telingana, Nehru wanted him to come to New Delhi and discuss Bhoomidan-yagna with the National Planning Commission, and offered to send a plane down to fly Vinoba back. Vinoba said: "I will come, but in my own time, and as always." He walked, with members of his ashram. New Delhi was 795 miles away...
Case refused to send the strikers back to work, claiming "there is a matter of human dignity involved aside from economic issues...
...national forces, but, of course, the French have a veto, and I am told that they would be even more opposed to that than ... to the European Army." The U.S. could not keep large forces in an indefensible Europe. "I do not believe that the Americans are going to send a great many troops over here to fight and die protecting Germans while the Germans sit by as spectators," said Diplomat Dulles, and he added bluntly: "Perhaps the French will feel like doing that, but the Americans...
...story: Morrison had asked the use of her home for the party, had promised to pick up all tabs. Now that his investment seemed a bad one, he was trying to get his money back, and she was not going to help. Said she: "I will gladly send a check for the amount of Mr. Morrison's claim to any deserving charity . . . but I refuse to recognize Mr. Morrison himself...
Klein is popping with new ideas to make his business even bigger. His latest: paint-it-yourself portraits. The customer sends in a photograph and about $20 along with a completed questionnaire describing the subject's coloring. Within a week, he will get back a printed canvas divided into color areas, plus the paints needed to fill them in. Klein is sure the idea will go over big with such paint-it-yourself devotees as the Baltimore housewife who wrote him: "I am sorry I ever saw your pictures. My home is disgraceful, and I sit here...