Word: sures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visiting diplomats find Washington society more hectic, more alcoholic, and less chic than that of European capitals. They go to parties because they have to: drawing rooms are their workrooms. But they miss the sure social structure of London, the intellectual tone of Paris, the darkened grace of Rome's great palazzi. They deplore the fact that official Washington society is made up of small-town politicians, uninteresting businessmen, journalists, and wives who wear the same dress three or four times. Embassies used to be consecrated ground for uninhibited splendor-but no longer. Now host and guest alike feel...
Something important was going on in Russia. This was all that the world could be sure of. The news itself was in two deadpan paragraphs on the back page of the Soviet papers, under the heading "Chronicle." The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet had "released the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., Comrade V.M. Molotov, from the duties of Minister of Foreign Affairs." It had appointed Andrei Vishinsky as Foreign Minister. Also, it had released the Deputy Chairman etc., A. I. Mikoyan, from the post of Minister of Foreign Trade and appointed in his stead...
...Communist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain, cutting off Peiping from the world. All foreign newsmen were ordered to "cease . . . collection of news and dispatching of news telegrams." In the drab, drafty Peking Club, the correspondents met and voted to stay on, at least until they were sure the ban was permanent...
...thing was sure: all of the orchestra's 90 players had been fired. But, said both Orchestra Personnel Manager Karl Chase and Union President Jack Ferentz, that was just a routine matter. Under their complicated agreement, as long as no master contract had been signed for next season, the orchestra was obliged to make all the musicians free agents. That gave the men a chance to find new jobs if they wanted to, and the orchestra a chance to make replacements. The joker: in the past, the musicians had been warned in advance that the firing was a mere...
...Kiphuth decides to "load" his 300-yard medley relay team with Floyd Aglietti, Bill Osbourn, and Dick Baribault--as he did against Dartmouth--the race looks like a sure Yale victory...