Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contaminating Policy. The U.S. delegates came home sputtering with indignation. What if other small nations took the same stand? The result, U.S. airlines hold, would be poison to U.S. world-girdling ambitions. In the case of countries like India, which has already spoken in favor of the 50-50 idea, the poison would be deadly: her airlines are still fledglings. While U.S. aviation looked on apprehensively, the State Department was trying to ease the tension. Hand-picked missionaries have left or are about to leave to do some top level, pre-treaty softening-up in China, India, Brazil (Newfoundland...
Seldom had so much error been compressed into so few words, spoken by a high U.S. official in the hopeful, innocent spring of 1945. His was a view of U.S.Russian relations then widely current; it died hard as international cooperation deteriorated through a year of deadlock and turgid compromise. But by the strained and troubled summer of 1946, when Molotov at the Paris Peace Conference again held the center of the stage, the world was learning to think of him not in terms of personal caprice or ambition. Now it knew him as the tough and devoted servant...
...smearing fist in his Self Portrait (see cut). Siqueiros' second entry was relatively calm-a green and gold description of three muscular, writhing gourds-but it was not quite so innocuous as it looked. In Spanish, calabazas (gourds) is a vulgar insult when spoken without a smile. Explained Siqueiros: the three calabazas stand for the three Government schools in charge of the competition...
...littered office at Collier's and shuffled through the week's receipts: more than 2,000 roughs. (Out of 15,000 mailed in each year by unknown hopefuls who just know they can draw, Collier's finds only three good enough to buy.) Said mustached, soft-spoken Gurney Williams, 42: "The other day I found myself staring at the millionth cartoon submitted to me since I became humor editor here. I wish it could have been fresh and original. Instead, it showed several ostriches with their heads buried in the sand. Two others stood nearby. Said...
...always been our policy to discuss public men and issues as we saw them. . . . We . . . will not be intimidated by any threat, spoken or implied, of mob rule...