Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three pressure on Franco began when Russia insisted on a place at the Tangier conference, but refused to sit down with representatives of Fascist Spain. Spain was excluded. Next came the Russian-initiated Big Three agreement at Potsdam barring Franco's Government from the United Nations organization. After that...
General Henry H. Arnold is younger (59) but wartime strain has aged him perceptibly. Last week forthright "Hap" Arnold said wearily at a press conference (perhaps his last) that he would retire soon. "I intend to go out and sit under an oak tree and I'll shoot down the first fellow that flies over in an airplane," said the man who built up an air force of 64,591 planes and 2,282,259 airmen...
Cried Radio Yenan: "Chiang Kaishek, the Fascist chieftain . . . whose policy has been to sit aside and watch others fight . . . really has no right to accept a Japanese surrender. . . . Reactionary . . . stupid . . . sinister plot ... to instigate civil...
Arabs in the Cistern. The $11, Eaton had understood, was to cover the whole journey, but the sheik in charge understood differently; on the second day the camel drivers went on strike. This was the first of many sit-downs ordered by the camel sheik, after each of which Eaton recorded laconically in his journal: "Pacified him with promises...
...wrote that headline, says: "Nowadays we don't nail people's heads to doors - unless, of course, it happened." Instead, Porter has found that the prosaic household hints in the back pages draw better. Best draw of all is plastic surgery. Says Porter drily: "From where I sit, it seems that no one in America likes his own face." Hearst's Concern. The American Weekly's world of tomorrow probably will never stray too far from the world of Goddard, since old William Randolph Hearst keeps a dimming eye on the Weekly's ways...