Word: tants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abadan refinery. Anglophobe Mossadeq agreed to a British boss for the British staff; he balked over Iranians taking orders from Britons. "But you can't run a show that way," cried Stokes. "You can only have one boss." Mossadeq rejected the argument with his favorite French phrase: "Tant pis" (tough luck...
...figured out some ways of placating labor. In his radio address (see above), Wilson hinted at new attempts to hold down food prices, promised to crack down on profiteers, pointedly noted that the views of farm ers and workers "must be represented in meeting national problems." More impor tant, he said: "Wage policies, too, are being modified again ..." But were they being modified enough to satisfy labor? Just to suggest the peril of not conceding labor enough, James B. Carey promptly threatened a strike of his International Union of Electrical Work ers at Charlie Wilson's own General Electric...
June 15, 1940-4 p.m. France had fallen. Down the main street of a country town staggered a drunken rout of French soldiery, bawling the self-disgust of their nation in a savagely gross song. "Tant qu'il y aura de la merde dans le pot," it went, "ça puera dans la chambre" (When the pot's full, no wonder the room stinks...
...More Italians have taken to reading American publications primarily because they consider the American viewpoint on world events more impor' tant now than ever before. A member of the Italian Foreign Office explained it this...
...valuable baggage of anecdote, legend, old documents, and excerpts from fron tier diaries. A generous sprinkling of old prints and photographs helps to make This Reckless Breed of Men an impor tant discovery for any armchair explorer of western Americana...