Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost as an afterthought the board took one more sortie into steel's economics. For years, Phil Murray's contracts with the gigantic U.S. Steel Corp. have pretty much determined the contracts signed by the rest of the industry. In effect this has given him the weapon of industrywide bargaining and a tremendous power to will over the country's steel mills...
...Friendship's Sake? His death raised a delicate problem for President Truman, faced with the necessity of appointing a second new justice within two months. Under ordinary circumstances the appointment almost certainly would go to Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath, a Roman Catholic, who had hoped to get Catholic Frank Murphy's seat but dutifully took the U.S. attorney generalship when Harry Truman chose Tom C. Clark...
...Almost forgotten Maxim Litvinov "looks as if his braces had broken." Only portly Andrei Vishinsky finds any favor at all. "We don't know," says Tailor & Cutter "what kind of a uniform he's wearing, but it is probably the only one in the world that allows the wearing of a fancy tie. The general effect is most impressive...
Walk in the Clouds. With a kind of perverse logic, those who "confessed" were set free while those courageous enough to deny the accusations were almost all sent to the gallows. Scores of people were jailed, but a few hardy souls began to speak up against the hysteria; a Salem Quaker, a few clergymen, a Boston merchant. Those still in jail were quietly set free-on condition they pay the expense of their imprisonment...
...Intelligence work" meant almost anything in World War II, from picking up bedroom gossip in Lisbon to sieving through trade statistics in Washington, and almost anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...