Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Dr. Calver: "[Congressmen] are exploited by everyone. . . ." The average member also answers some 250 letters a day and worries about his bank account...
Although the two had disagreed on many things, they saw eye-to-eye on the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. Their testimony gave the most intimate account yet told of the fated diplomacy of 1941 : August 9-11. At the Atlantic Conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were confronted with the fact that Japanese troops had moved into French Indo-China, were massing on the Thailand border, that bellicose Japanese spokesmen were complaining of "encirclement" by the U.S., Britain and China. Churchill urged a joint warning to the Japs, wanted Roosevelt to declare that further Jap aggression would force...
...defendants listened raptly to the detailed account of their rise to power. Some, smiling for the first time, lost themselves in the memories of the good old days. Their lawyers, wanting to make the most of what Jackson called the "dramatic disparity" between victors and vanquished, were less pleased, got ready to fight back. At a press conference (at which they faced some 200 hostile reporters, most of whom jeered and booed) they announced an impressive list of witnesses they wanted subpoenaed, including Lady Astor, Lords Beaverbrook, Londonderry and Derby, all supposedly belonging to the prewar "Cliveden Set" of after...
...unusual feature of "Dream Girl" is its free treatment of the time element. Although it proceeds chronologically, hours sometimes pass in the course of a few minutes. Rice doesn't try to account for every second, and the swift-moving hours give the play a streamlined effect...
...neurasthenoid person hurts all over, wakes up tired and can always think of some eating mistake, or a draft, or a change in routine, to account for his misery. Many such "chronic invalids" give away the fact that they are not really sick by being crashing business successes...