Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with nine abstentions), welcomed U.N.'s 59th member with a standing ovation, politely forgot that the Israelis had again & again been at outs with U.N. The Israelis had balked when U.N. demanded that Jerusalem be internationalized, balked again when they were told to take back Palestine's Arab refugees...
...indomitable will to win over the Communists has gone a long way to strengthen Greece's stout but weary heart. Recently, he visited Premier Sophoulis and wished him many more years of life. The feeble old man ignored that. He said to Van Fleet: "You must take care of yourself, for you have to live now for Greece...
...general comment from Japanese was: "Arigatai des" [We're grateful]. But there were some skeptics. Said one young Japanese: "Sure, we're terribly grateful for this. Still, if they wanted to continue the reparations, what would there be left to take...
Dutra does not smoke and seldom drinks. He is completely without side. On Sundays and on personal outings, he rides in a private car with a civilian license plate. When he was Minister of War, he ordered the police to take away a detective posted for protection at his door. "That man," he said, "is attracting unfavorable attention to my house." One of his first official acts as President was to abolish the presidential bodyguard...
...experience as explorers. Their plans, not to shoot, but, rather, to admire the animals ('an enormous love of animals is our principal motive') modified the equipment situation somewhat . . . There would be a few days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed . . . Rather than take a chance on finding in the African shops an exploring costume in her size (almost no ready-made clothes anticipate her doll-like proportions)," Mrs. Adrian bought them in Manhattan. For the trip up river she wore "an oyster-white silk Shantung suit made (where better?) in her husband's workrooms...