Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economics thus presented is no dry affair, rather something to make all that is human in its readers revolt. First we are told that the needs in dollars of hungry peoples come for 1947 to $583 million, then that a sum far greater is being lavished on atomic research by the very Governments which "might or might not act in keeping with their findings" concerning hunger...
...Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President's bill and it died. The whole affair ended in a kind of shocked and shamefaced silence...
...Morison reminds readers, no neat and compact affair. It was a mammoth multi-pronged attack, with the flanks about 900 miles apart. While the U.S. task force struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans...
...Family Affair. In Tulsa, Mrs. Jessie Eli had the cops collar two strange young men who had entered her house, next day asked to have them freed when she learned they were her brothers...
...extraordinary child prodigy, worked with astonishing success at first, then was defeated by the intrigues of petty jealousies, and died in abject poverty, chiefly from overwork, at the age of 35. To this natural and interesting history the Italian producers have added a prolonged and bitter love affair with Aloysia von Weber, whose sister, Constanza, Mozart actually married after only a brief flirtation with Aloysia...