Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comforting to remember that exactly 100 years ago, in the historically discontented year of 1848, Britain was going through one of the most serious economic crises of the 19th Century; yet only three years later, at the Crystal Palace celebration, Britons were toasting their unquestioned supremacy in the world of commerce...
...million-man peacetime army, mostly infantry, the West did not attempt to compete. But the closing months of World War II had made astute military men realize that airborne troops, supplied by air, would be a crucial factor if World War III arrived. Few would have believed, a month ago, that 2½ million people could be fed by air. If the U.S. and Britain, now at a low peacetime level, could turn that trick with a scratch force, what could they do if mobilized for war? The answer perceptibly shortened the shadow of the Red Army...
...Togliatti before police seized him. Blood soaked through Togliatti's grey double-breasted suit and made small, neat pools on the cobblestones. In the hot sun the blood soon dried. (The spot where he fell was only two blocks from where he had narrowly missed death 25 years ago, when Fascist police stood him against a wall to be executed; he escaped when the executioner lost his nerve.) Two bullets had pierced Togliatti's right lung, a third had struck him in the neck. He was able to mumble a question: he asked if his briefcase was safe...
...Party still had its machinery of civil war, prepared long ago. Although the cogs were rusting, the Communist leaders shielded it against the day when they could use it. News of Togliatti's shooting reached the Italian Senate to interrupt a violent harangue by Communist Umberto ("The Brain") Terracini against a government plan to speed up the collection of arms from private organizations, including the Communists...
...Tinker, sputtery holler guy of baseball's immortal Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, confined to a wheel chair since his left leg was amputated 18 months ago, entered an Orlando, Fla. nursing home for "closer supervision of his diet...