Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...could remember any single day in U.N. history when there had been as many private talks among the delegates. India's white-thatched Sir Senegal Rau buzzed up & down the corridors at Lake Success, in & out of at least a dozen meetings. Red China and Red Korea had answered Rau's petition for a Communist military halt at the 38th parallel by sending North Korean troops across the parallel (TIME, Dec. 18). India's undeterred envoy now proposed to ask for a ceasefire...
Monroe Doctrine. Next day (Tuesday), with the backing of twelve other Asian and Middle Eastern nations, Sir Benegal read his recommendation to the General Assembly: "The President of the General Assembly to constitute a group of three persons including himself to determine the basis on which a satisfactory cease-fire in Korea can be arranged . . ." He also reported on his four "fairly long" interviews with Red China's Wu Hsiu-chuan. Sample dialogue...
...lines were written last spring when Shaw, seven years short of his target centenary and bored with old age, was to be seen stumping about Ayot Saint Lawrence with a contax camera. Neighbors watched him focus on the village show places. "That must be hard work, sir," said Postmistress Jisbella Lyth. Tiring, said Shaw. Last week the village had a chance to see Shaw's photographs. Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (price one shilling)* went on sale in Mrs. Lyth's post-office shop...
...dear Sir," wrote Nurse Nightingale to a friend in 1887, "your account of the young lady of 18 who wished to devote herself as a Nurse is so very interesting. But have you thought whether 18 is not too young, both physically and morally? There are sacred secrets belonging to the sick which 18 could not and ought not to be able to understand-and there are secrets, the very reverse of sacred, the secrets of vice, about Patients which their Nurse must know if she is not to be made a fool of; and which one shrinks from...