Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although no formal agenda for the talks has been set, the subject matter is plain for all to see. Russia wants Japan to declare itself neutralist, and has in its power, if it wishes, the ability to pay the Japanese a formidable price, to wit: return of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; entry into the U.N.; return of 10,000 Japanese P.W.s and "war criminals"; trade and fishing concessions in Siberian waters. Some or all of these inducements, plus the "normalized relations" promised to the Japanese electorate by Premier Ichiro Hatoyama last February, might bring the neutralist pledge...
Convincingness, the sine qua non of illustration, led even Mobile-Maker Alexander Calder to resort to the recognizable for his illustrations of a recent edition of Aesop's Fables. Calder's depiction of a vain crow being adorned with peacock feathers by his feathered friends has more wit than force, and looks more like a bent-wire construction than a drawing, but any child can grasp it and enjoy...
...nice like they used to be," and nags her son's vacationing family into driving off on a side road. Instead of finding the six-columned mansion she insists she remembers, they run into three escaped convicts who rob and shoot the lot, the babbling old feather-wit last of all. Good Country People looses Mrs.Hopewell, who "had no bad qualities of her own but . . . was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack." When she invites a young, Bible-peddling wool-hat to supper, he winds up taking...
...Chef Dione Lucas remains a purist. She calmly refuses the customary TV gimmicks, chats informally with a sprinkling of wit and common sense as she displays her skill with a skillet. Last week she demonstrated paupiettes de veau Fontage and the unexpurgated chicken marengo (two small chickens are browned in sweet butter; a hen lobster is sautéed, then shelled; chickens and lobster are flamed in cognac, sprinkled with an aromatic sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shallots, tarragon and dry vermouth, garnished with fried eggs on croutons and slices of truffles). Chef Lucas makes it look easy, but any housewife...
...with wit and wind, fact and fancy, rancor and fellowship, democracy worked its special ferment in Great Britain. At the campaign's halfway mark, big things like the Big Four meeting, little things like a drop in the price of tea, bred confidence in Tory meeting rooms. The Liberal London News Chronicle reported that in "Labor committee room after committee room, there is the grey admission that half the workers are disheartened, the other half defeatist." There were, of course, Laborites who would deny it. But most of the betting was that unless the wind turned full about, Britain...