Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese do not think a party to a dispute should have a vote in settling the dispute; they have observed that the Blueprint makes no provision for checking possible aggression by one of the Big Four-but they will probably not press the point.) Small nations most likely to sit in on the first Council sessions: Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Iran...
...there are always special deliveries needed too; so gasoline also goes to the front in the bellies of the Troop Carrier Command's C-47s. Carrying fuel and other urgent supplies, the great ships sit down, one every 14 seconds, on narrow emergency landing strips sometimes only 50 miles behind the racing tanks. Soon railways will take over much of the burden...
...antifascist journalist (Michael Redgrave) who raged through the 1930s with a Cassandra's customary success, retires to sit out World War II on Thunder Rock, in a Great Lakes lighthouse. Embittered, soaked with liquor and self-pity, he is content to let the world go hang. While it hangs, he entertains himself by conjuring up in his imagination a number of immigrants from Europe who drowned near his lighthouse a century ago. Before long they all but take on flesh & blood, act out for him the tragedies and the defeats of their own lifetimes...
With a flip of the bear's paw the Bulgarian Government had been knocked off the fence on which it had been trying so desperately to sit...
Detroit's auto makers were less sanguine (one of the biggest predicted that if Germany quit tomorrow, he could not turn out cars till March). But in the new spirit of "give business what it wants," WMC under Krug's new policy prepared to sit down with the auto makers this week and give them what they want...