Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight-nation South East Asia Treaty Organization.* Pakistan's Mozaffar Ali Khan Qizil-bash briskly demanded more U.S. aid, implied that his country might turn to the Soviet Union if its demands were not met. He warned: "Distinction must be made between friends and those who sit on the fence. While the latter are the recipients of large-scale aid from both Communist and Western countries, the former have to depend on their allies alone." More moderately, the Philippines' President Carlos Garcia and Thailand's Prince Wan Waithayakon echoed the Pakistan representative's plea for "more...
With that went glimmering the last faint hope of settling the rebellion peacefully. Castro, in effect, had already rejected the Roman Catholic Church's proposal for a government of national union, declaring that "no self-respecting Cuban could sit in Batista's Cabinet," and the church-supported Conciliation Commission collapsed in futility...
Stuffed birds under glass bells no longer sit on modern mantelpieces, and the 47 books of Ouida no longer stand between ebony bookends. Yet Ouida, "almost the last of lady authors," is not just a Victorian-Edwardian period piece. Monica
Commissioners themselves do not sit in on all cases, depend on examiners to brief them and justify their decisions. Many commission officials have little knowledge of how to conduct a hearing on industry's problems. At a recent CAB hearing, American Airlines President C. R. Smith snapped at a CAB counsel: "I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you." When the record has accumulated, often to a height of five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage...
...Lovemaker (Trans-Lux). Constrained by customs rooted in the Moslem and the medieval, millions of Spanish women sit behind their lattices and, as the Spanish say, "wait for the blue prince." For a pretty girl or a wealthy girl, the wait may not be long. For those who have neither looks nor money, life can be the sort of gradual death this picture painfully and vividly anatomizes...