Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, Bevin said: "Nothing I agree to politically for Germany can go into effect until a workable settlement has been reached economically." That was the rub. Marshall offered a slight concession to the Russians' demand for reparations from German current production; he declared that the U.S. would "study" the demand on condition: 1) that the Soviets would agree to leave in Germany certain factories originally slated to be removed to Russia and take their reparations only from these factories; 2) that current production reparations must not increase occupation costs, or retard German self-support. Under these terms, Russia, which...
...plot is slight and suspenseless, and not steered with-much skill. It is the professor, with his crotchets, jokes and advice, that gives the play a fitful animation; and an assortment of minor characters, most of them fellow-warriors of the colonel, that give it color and geniality. They keep popping in & out, seldom doing anything more striking than singing songs, drinking toasts, dabbling in the past, dreaming toward the future. But they frequently do all these things in a gay and human fashion, and occasionally their war experiences give the characters an unexpected third dimension...
...Queen Elizabeth has sometimes had to rebuke him for ordering the servants about too much. King George can approve his daughter's marriage only with the consent of the Cabinet, and so far Philip's connection with the Greek regime, remote as it is, has been a slight hitch. But last week, as plain Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, Prince Philip was granted his British citizenship, and even that hitch seemed to have been overcome. When Elizabeth is asked about her engagement, she replies with a coy, "For that you must wait and see." But the Empire is quite prepared...
Author Shute has projected a heavyweight plea in a lightweight novel. The plot is embarrassingly slight: wounded Veteran John Turner, back at his job as a London salesman, is told by his surgeon that he has but a year to live. He is determined, before he dies, to look up three hospital buddies who were kind to him: a British pilot, a British paratrooper, an American Negro G.I. In Burma, he finds the pilot (who had once objected to having the Negro in the same hospital room), happily married to a Burmese girl. The paratrooper (who had beaten a murder...
...slight, mild-mannered journalism instructor from Missouri stepped ashore at Shanghai. His fellow passengers piled into rickshas, but he could not bring himself to ride behind a human beast of burden. He walked to his hotel...