Word: transaction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back from France with orders for postwar wines and promises of better food. The sacrosanct smoking room had a new carpet, its lackeys new black uniforms with green lapel pipings. A new room was open where M.P.s-who sometimes have had to dictate to secretaries on hall benches-could transact their business. Even the mace, symbol of authority, had been regilded...
Finally someone remembered that there was state business to transact. Calling the Council together for an open-air session, Horace Hildreth had a hunting knife at his hip. To call the meeting to order he rapped on a tree stump with...
...lower administrative levels, the story of the crisis was shaped by day-to-day encounters of officers who often disliked each other, by the day-to-day problems and incompatibilities of routine occupation business. Last fortnight, Berlin's Kommandatura met to transact some of that business. Facing each other across an oblong table in the large, high-windowed council room were youngish, earnest American Major General James Gavin; tall, leathery British Major General E. P. Nares; fattish French Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne; and an able, hard-hitting Russian, Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov. Each had an interpreter...
...naval censorship bureau where we occasionally transact business we were stopped short at the threshold by a typewritten notice that, one step ahead, we would be shot without warning. Quite confidentially, we spied through a glass window and found neither men nor materials strategically disposed to repel an invader. Another Pearl Harbor...
...days Lawyer J. R. Stirrett cooled his heels in the offices of International Nickel Co. in Copper Cliff, Ont.-unable to get past the reception desk to transact some business. The cooler his heels got, the hotter he got under the collar...