Word: unbending
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...move their funds from New York to the Frankfurt money market, says Erhard, are help enough for the dollar. The new U.S. Administration is busy taking a long, hard look at the bal ance of payments problem, and the word from Washington is that the Germans will have to unbend a lot more...
...Giovanni Boldini, is not prodigious, but exactly suits his ends. He may well rank with those past masters of social portraiture. Bouche is not one to portray the bellhop or the country maid, but flies straight to the inmost circle of society, where the crustiest tycoons really do unbend, all wives are beautiful, and well-tailored bohemians are welcome. In a sense, he adores the lions and tigresses of a world often so polite that it is rude, and so frantic that it is bored...
...minute drive from Johns Hopkins to Washington. Often he stays overnight, and the Upstairs Red Room (so called to distinguish it from the main-floor parlor known as the Red Room) is generally kept ready for him. In the privacy of the presidential bedroom, the brothers can unbend over a drink or two-Scotch and soda for Ike, a bone-dry martini for Milton-furl sleeves, lounge coatless in the easy chairs and talk...
Malik offered to help Japan get into the U.N., but he made no promise to return to Japan Southern Sakhalin or any of the Kuril Islands, or the 10,000 Japanese P.W.s and "war criminals" still held by the Russians. Of course, Malik might yet unbend with a few concessions, on the theory that he who gives slowly appears to give more. But the Japanese negotiators were plainly surprised and disappointed after all the fine Russian talk of wanting to "normalize" relations. Last week the Japanese formally rejected Malik's treaty draft, and hoped he had something better...
...ever bigger and boomier organs, trying to compete with the symphony orchestra. He is dedicated to the "baroque" style, which to organists means the simpler, purer style of Bach's day. In his playing, Biggs rarely pulls all the stops. But despite his musical austerity, he can unbend. At an organists' convention he helped organize a few years ago, high points were a jam session of four organs playing...