Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-man OPA Decontrol Board. It would be all-powerful in determining what commodities and goods would be under price ceilings. In choosing the Board the President was expected to follow a well-grooved pattern: one member to represent labor, one to be an industry-management spokesman, one to sit for the public. But the Board named by Harry Truman fell into no such groove. The three men nominated for the $12,000 jobs were...
...know," said one of the students as the TIME correspondent took his place at the beer table, "for two years I fought Americans. Now it seems strange to sit down at a table in the university yard and drink schnapps with one." "Na, Hans," laughed the others, drinking their brandy out of fancy glasses etched with a swastika, "don't get excited. If you on the West had half the experiences with Russians that we did, there'd be reason for tension. Here is an American newspaperman who wants to know what the few young Germans left...
Rehearsal for Trouble. Arab spokesmen said they would not sit with Jews. In Palestine, they had instituted a boycott against Jewish merchants, with heavy fines for noncompliance. In New York, Arabs began moving to put the Palestine question on the agenda of the September meeting of U.N.'s General Assembly (in which the Arab states have five votes). That might well be the point at which Russia enters the game as the champion of Islam, a role Moscow has been quietly rehearsing for the past two years...
Because of a brain injury at birth, an eight-year-old boy had never been able to sit or stand. Three months ago he entered Dr. Herman Rabat's grey clapboard house in Washington-for treatments combining physical therapy with a drug called pro-stigmine. Last week the boy walked...
...passion. Some seek normal love, others prefer perversion. Result (in the English translation): to make his novel safe for U.S. family readers, Romains says he has felt obliged to make "completely brutal excisions." The deletions are certain to stimulate readers' imaginations. Example: "If you like, I'll sit at the piano (three words deleted...