Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...most persistent block to integration of continental European economics has been the French fear of German economic supremacy, once German industry was rebuilt. France has been adamant in her demands that Britain must enter into any European economic union to balance out the German industrial power. Therefore her offer last week to put all German and French steel and coal production under a "joint high authority" came as a surprise to everyone, especially to the British...
...found it politic last week to yield a point. Because the State Department's files of these 81 had been examined by Congress prior to the establishment of the loyalty program, he was opening them again to the Tydings committee. McCarthy promptly changed that it was a "phony offer of phony files...
...Haiti, they say it is the only thing that will cause Damballah and his wife Ayida Oueddo, a pair of the chief deities of the voodoo pantheon, to put in an appearance at a voodoo session. Chinese bankers have taken to serving it instead of tea, and Italian aristocrats offer it to their guests instead of champagne. Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth in the shadow of the Matterhorn and beneath the blank, unastonished eyes of the great Sphinx...
...Should I offer a prayer during a pastoral call? May I advertise my sermons? Should I visit female parishioners alone? How should I dress for a church picnic...
Mather credited these weaknesses to "so-called Christians." Christian principles, he maintained, offer a man a spiritual guide which science and art do not provide...