Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first thing I want to say ... is thank you. We have organized for an immense task, and the United States must play the greatest part. We are in a period of confidence and friendship that will bind France and the United States together." He spoke fervently, but not long. He concluded abruptly: "Long live the United States of America." Along the airstrip there were little pats of applause...
Snapped Professor Harold J. Laski, leftist chairman of the British Labor Party: if Clement Attlee sat at the Big Three conference, it would be as an observer only; his attendance would not bind the Labor Party to any Big Three decisions. Said Attlee next day in accepting the invitation: "There was never any suggestion that I should go as a mere observer. . . ." The Labor Party scored off the Government in the matter of khaki candidates. A Government (i.e., Conservative) proposal that service candidates be permitted to wear their uniforms at the hustings brought on an electric storm in Parliament...
...Court"). The jurists working on a basic statute in Washington left some of the most important questions up to San Francisco-how to choose the judges, whether they will have compulsory jurisdiction in some types of cases, whether and to what extent the court's decision and precedents bind the Security Council...
Colombia's Lleras introduced the week's hottest resolution. Backed in principle by the U.S., it would bind all the signers to defend the boundaries and political independence of any American republic attacked from any quarter, within or without the Western Hemisphere. Tacit object: to create a combination in case Argentina should turn aggressor against Chile...
...mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional an existence! . . . Whenever I thought of the essential bleakness of black life in America, I knew...