Word: affixing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House ceremony this week it took Harry Truman, using 26 souvenir pens, a quarter of an hour to affix his signature to the measure. "No one should think that this agreement ... is directed against any other country," said the President...
...almost unbroken silence the ship's crew assembled as witnesses and watched one delegate after another affix their signatures. Grey, overcast skies had hung over the ship all during the ceremony. As the New Zealand delegate stepped forward to sign his name as the last on the list, the skies parted and the sun shone bright through the clouds...
...failure who ran off to the South Seas because he couldn't make the grade, who painted distorted pictures over which "the shapely natives had every reason to bring libel suits." "At their worst," said Mr. Coburn firmly, "[their paintings] resembled the crude elemental expressions which nitwits affix to sidewalks, barn doors and elsewhere-especially elsewhere." To him Boston was "a community which today possesses the best school of painting in existence anywhere...