Word: cites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laggard Government. Amputees at Walter Reed claim that there have been no improvements in prostheses since the Civil War. Some say there have been none since the Middle Ages-and cite as evidence a knight's false...
...illustration, I can cite an experience of my own. This happened in May 1930, at a time when our country was still comparatively poor and all efforts and means were directed at fulfillment of the first five-year plan. My colleagues at the Institute and myself thought it was essential to begin work on the atomic nucleus...
...This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms...
Under the compromise, the Security Council's Big Five (the Big Three plus France and China) must agree unanimously before the world organization can take economic or military action against an aggressor. But any seven (nominally, two-thirds) of the Council's eleven members can cite an aggressor nation, bring its sins to world attention...
Third Objection. The banker-critics see at Bretton Woods a credit institution controlled by borrowers rather than by creditors. They cite U.S. banking history as evidence that would-be borrowers should not pass on loan applications. They also think that too great latitude is allowed on exchange rates. Under the Keynes-White provisions, a nation may devalue its currency 10%, and then return to present its case for another cut to countries that might want a favorable vote on devaluation for themselves. The banker-critics, further, interpret the Keynes-White provisions to mean that devaluation will be the usual recourse...