Word: offered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nine U.N. members not asked for armed aid: the U.S., already in Korea up to its ears; Nationalist China, whose offer to send troops was being stalled because the U.S. State Department still could not make up its mind to cooperate with Chiang Kaishek; Costa Rica whose constitution forbids it to have an army and the six of the 59 U.N. members (Yugoslavia and the five Soviet-bloc nations) who did not give some form of backing to the U.N. action in Korea...
...Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. (Birth of a Nation) Griffith to distribute films made independently by each of the partners. Now Fairbanks and Griffith were dead, Mary Pickford made no pictures and Chaplin almost none. All that the company had to offer a prospective buyer was a famous name and a system of 32 film distribution exchanges in the U.S. and Canada losing about $25,000 a week...
Fifteen-year-old Luca, hero of the second story, runs into another kind of adolescent trouble. Gangling, oversensitive, growing ahead of his mental and physical strength, he is not strong enough to take the shocks life has to offer. The girl of his first grown-up affair almost seduces him back to a love of life. But when he goes to keep their first rendezvous he finds her ill, and within a few days she is dead. He takes refuge in psychosomatic illness, until a gentle, understanding nurse helps him to manhood and to a courageous acceptance of the human...
Stalin's Russia can move forward, sideways or backwards. One smart Russian move might be an offer of a "general" settlement in which the Communists would move back of the 38th parallel in Korea, and the U.S. would recognize Communist China and accept Mao Tse-tung's nominee for the United Nations. That would be tantamount to handing Asia over to Communism...
...Although this is hardly a doctor's problem, I offer this advice for what it's worth. "You can either stop thinking of the boy you love or stuff your nostrils with blotting paper...