Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrathful over Russia's "calculated campaign of vilification and distortion of American motives in foreign affairs." The U.S. had one objective in Europe: restore Europe's peace and economic equilibrium. With that objective he was going to London to sit with Molotov, Bevin and Bidault on the fate of Germany and Austria. "My purpose [is] to concentrate solely on finding an acceptable basis of agreement to terminate the present tragic stalemate," he said...
...tart. He got that feeling last week at his press conference. It began when he announced his plans for the Army-Navy game. He liked the game as much as anybody, he said, but he didn't want to be in the show. So this year he would sit on the Army side for the whole game, next year on the Navy side...
...Testaments and 400,000 Gospel portions have been sent through American contributions. One World, One Book--this is the philosophy of the Society. They see the dream of world brotherhood grow real as the merchant in Thailand, the German student, the Arabian shiek, and the African Zulu sit down simultaneously to read the words of Luke, ii, 14: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will towards...
Perhaps the Kremlin believed that the U.S. hope of an Austrian treaty would lead George Marshall on through weeks of stalemate on Germany. If so, the Russians were wrong. Clearly, Marshall did not intend to sit through another version of last winter's Moscow Conference, which accomplished nothing but the propagation of international ill will. Britain's Ernest Bevin was of like mind. He said last week: "No one can accuse me of being impatient . . . but there comes an end." If the conference does not reach agreement, "I am not going to be a party to keeping...
Many other Siamese remembered Phibun with less pleasure. When he first made himself Siam's dictator, in 1938, he forbade Siamese to go without hats or shoes, to chew betel nut, to sit on the streets, to wear the panung (native skirt), or to dance to American and European music. In official photographs, shoes and hats were painted on unshod, hatless peasants. Phibun ordered officials to kiss their wives when they left for their Government offices. Violators of Phibun's decrees were whisked off to "self-improvement centers." When the Japanese took over Siam, Phibun collaborated with them...