Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great grasp of foreign affairs. Unlike his predecessors, he depended heavily on his advisers. Since the humiliating Wallace fiasco, he had been grateful that he could leave policymaking more or less in George Marshall's hands. But Harry Truman's horizon was growing. A few months ago, at a private dinner, General Marshall rose in his place, looked straight at Harry Truman, and waited for silence. Then he said with deep seriousness: "The full stature of this man will only be proven by history, but I want to say here and now that there has never been...
Attorney General Tom Clark also spoke up. "The evidence [gathered by the FBI] discloses," he said, "that Mr. Duggan was a loyal employee of the United States Government." Later this week on a television program, he added that Duggan had been approached ten years ago by "two persons," but that Duggan had "repulsed them both" and that "we have found no connection between him and any espionage...
...last any of the servants saw of their reserved, austere employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death of Laurence Duggan, who had been his protégé and a close friend...
...north from Norfolk with three Piasecki ("Sagging Sausage") helicopters, each capable of carrying eight passengers. The red-faced Air Force ordered up ski-equipped planes and called in famed Arctic flyer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who had commanded the Air Force's first successful glider rescue in Alaska fortnight ago...
...years ago England's waspish Critic Cyril Connolly attempted to figure out how to write a book that would attain the "immortality" of lasting for ten years-nine years longer, say, than the average novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...