Word: acquaintance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Laborite Daily Herald (in a front-page headline): WALLACE SPEECH JUST A BLUNDER. It suggested that Secretary Wallace acquaint himself with the British withdrawal from India...
Even fairy tales were under attack. Pravda blasted two children's magazines for printing "nonsensical fairy tales, which take the youthful reader out of the realm of reality or distort the truth about the Soviet Union." Instead, said Pravda sternly, they should acquaint "young readers with the problems of life and the struggle of our Socialist fatherland...
...order to acquaint its readers with the current production of "Winterset" before the brief run which the Dramatic Club plans for it, the Crimson has reviewed a dress rehearsal of the performance. The Crimson recognize that certain changes may be made before tonight's opening...
...reinforcements can reach you. I believe, therefore, that you understand as clearly as I that the destruction of all Japanese resistance on this island is merely a matter of days, and that this will entail the necessity of my killing the vast majority of your remaining troops. ... I will acquaint [your representatives] with the manner in which an orderly and honorable cessation of hostilities may be arranged...
...people for whom and by whom our law has been made," the books "show what judges and lawyers can do," according to the introduction of the list. Six of the books were included "to produce an appetite for intellectual work and the solution of difficult problems," and "to acquaint the reader with some world literature which should be familiar to all lawyers...