Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greeted the President soberly: "I'm afraid we didn't accomplish too much." At his press conference two days later he went into more detail. A newsman asked: "Was the conference a failure or a success?" The Secretary of State replied sharply: "Why do we have to take a dichotomy and say it is a success or a failure?" Big Four parleys, he explained in his precise way, are no longer enough in themselves to achieve striking changes or to create new crises. Like steam gauges which indicate how much pressure has been built up, Acheson said...
...teen-agers collected. Police arrived in time to escort the Negroes safely from the park. But all that afternoon fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. "Want to know how to take care of those niggers?" he shouted. "Get bricks. Smash their heads, the dirty, filthy...
...send red roses, not orchids; always give the impression you have lots of money. "I'm a parlay player," said Engel. "I always made it a practice to spend on Mabel what I got from Jane . . . Don't forget that all these women were trying to take...
...days after the Hotel des Indes meeting, Dutch infantrymen began their withdrawal from Jogjakarta. As the Dutch troops passed through the city, natives gawked silently. Earlier, 30,000 civilians, including many panicky Chinese, had evacuated to the north, fearful that the Republican take-over would be the signal for bloody fighting among the Republicans. Indonesia's Communists already had announced their plans to take the Jogjakarta airfield as soon as the Dutch withdrew...
...been an uncertain balance of power-but not a power in himself. In the scramble for sides, several hundred officers have been quietly jailed. The strategy of A.D. leaders is to keep building up strength until army strife gives them a wide-open chance to take over the government...