Word: toitiest
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...more aid. But official Washington preserved a stolid calm. One key official at the State Department dismissed the news as unimportant, conceding only that it had raised a few hackles here & there. Said he in a tone that would scarcely have been used by Britons at their hoitiest and toitiest in dealing with "natives": "Perhaps the Chinese have been a shade more independent recently, as if they wanted to show that China was not a rubber stamp...
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