Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gist of Tsiang's 17,000 word indictment was familiar, but it was being presented formally for the first time at the bar of world opinion. Russia, said Tsiang, had systematically given military, economic, diplomatic and moral aid to the Chinese Communist rebels. It was thereby guilty of violating both its treaty of friendship with China and the U.N. Charter itself. "I know that the General Assembly has not a single rifle or a single plane," said Tsiang. "[But] it has at its disposal a great fund of moral power over the peoples of the world...
Doctors themselves were mostly to blame for making the U.S. a nation of laxative-takers. A generation ago, they spread the word, with the help of patent-medicine advertisers, that waste matter retained in the colon causes self-poisoning. Current medical belief denies this. Furthermore, most so-called constipation is nothing of the sort; daily elimination is not necessary to everybody's health. Fof some people, an interval of two days or more may be natural...
Washington hoped that this would be the last word on the Allies' feckless dismantling policy...
...news was greeted by cries of "Bravo!" and "Sehr gut!" The Western powers had actually conceded more than Adenauer and his government had expected to get. Last week the Chancellor and the Western High Commissioners began negotiations to put the Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week's foreign-policy debate the French Assembly might try to whittle down the Paris decisions. But, as Konrad Adenauer...
Last year, after conducting at Scotland's Edinburgh festival, Rafael Kubelik sent word to Prague (where members of his family still live) that he was not returning to open the 1948-49 season; he would play Czech music, but play it elsewhere. Since then, he and his wife and three-year-old son Martin have made their headquarters in London...