Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suppose, for example, that tomorrow the U.S., Britain and France should sit down with Russia to talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
...next fall the Big Four might sit down under quite different circumstances. By then there might be a move toward a U.S. military guarantee of Western Union, starting with practical staff cooperation in an Atlantic defense system. Western Union might be moving rapidly on the political and economic fronts...
Children on Stage. One way Dorati won Dallas over was to get his supporters young. He gives ten children's concerts a year, and lets talented kids sit in with the orchestra once a year. The first year, only four little fiddlers (one of whom made a puddle on the stage) could make the grade. Last year he had a stage full: 30 violinists, 17 cellists and one violist. He also trained a schoolkids' chorus to sing Kodaly's Psalmus Hungarians-in Hungarian...
Schuman would not accept the amendment nor this kind of one-party dictation to his coalition. He said he would resign if the amendment passed. When the vote came, his Socialist ministers rose from the government benches and resigned to sit and vote with their party. Schuman was beaten...
...here sit...