Word: tangents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each speaker having been chosen in advance to represent all views. Some members leave the chamber, but the majority remain, paying careful attention to each speaker, applauding after every speech. Herbert Morrison, the unpopular Lord President of the Council, sums up the government views, and launching off on a tangent, is almost caught up by opposition speakers, but is saved by a ruling from the speaker. As dinnertime approaches, a recess is declared and the members quickly empty the chamber...
Perhaps the only man who could have stopped Gandhi was brilliant, unstable Jawaharlal Nehru, but he went off on a small and dizzy tangent to his native Kashmir, where the local maharaja, Sir Hari Singh, had arrested a popular leader, the sheik Mohamed Abdullah. Sir Hari had Nehru arrested. In protest, thousands of Bombay mill workers and Calcutta transport workers went on strike. Markets closed in many cities, and in Madura five Indians were killed in riots...
Egypt's Premier, Nahas Pasha, has one good eye and one that veers off at a tangent. Perhaps the second eye has been roving over the restless Middle East; perhaps it winked at the Fighting French Commander-in-Chief for Syria and Lebanon, General Georges Catroux, and certain political leaders of these onetime French mandates. In Cairo last week they were closeted with Nahas, hatching plans that, after World War II, the Middle East shall be un-mandated...
...Americans also learned that the winters aren't so cold and the defenses aren't so hot. Even though Iceland is tangent to the Arctic Circle, its air is warmed by the Gulf Stream, its houses by water piped from its many hot springs. The best natural element of defense is Lake Thingvalla, which, because it is fed by these hot springs, never freezes, and is therefore ideal for flying patrol boats. Otherwise the advantages of the natural defenses are offset by the scarcity of roads and materiel-scarcities which the Yanks knew their Army would...
...movies, took to singing together in nightclubs in gold-braided black charro (cowboy) costumes. They have since broadcast for NBC, played at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, are now in Argentina. To delicate touching of the guitar and impeccable rhythm they add three fine voices in almost tangent harmony. When they are sweet they are very, very sweet, as in the sad, melodic Hace Un Ano (A Year Ago), Las Mananitas (Mornings), Adids Mariquita Linda (Goodby, Beautiful Mariquita). Their liveliest number is a ranch song, El Toro, full of shouting, whistling, guitar-beating and mooing. They are Decca...