Word: attached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feud among U.S. officials in Moscow grew confused and hot. The friction between Faymonville and Brigadier General Joseph Anthony Michela, military attaché, grew no less intense when Ambassador Admiral Standley arrived. Faymonville, already at odds with his military colleagues, locked horns with State...
Vigorous, fastidious Faymonville, graduate of West Point, had watched Russia since 1915. He learned the language, served with the U.S. forces in Siberia in 1918, and for five years served at the U.S. Embassy as military attach...
Rebuke. If there were any doubt that De Gaulle referred to the feeling among Frenchmen that France was ignored at the Moscow Conference, it melted away two days later when the Committee declared: "[We] attach too high a price to inter-Allied solidarity not to be pleased. . . . However it appears to the Committee that settlement of the fate of Germany and her allies after their defeat cannot be undertaken or successfully conducted without the participation of France...
Devise a Trick. Earlier welding guns could be used only on horizontal plates. A small mound of powdered metal, of flux, was dumped on the plate and fused by electricity to attach the "stud." But on perpendicular plates there was no way to keep the flux in place. Instead, a small square of "welding pad" had to be laboriously welded, then the stud welded to that. Ted Nelson wearied of doing this, finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting...
Last week, armed with the title of Cultural Attaché of the Cuban Embassy, solid, swarthy Ernesto Lecuona was rushing around Manhattan doing a number of things no diplomat had ever done before. He had just signed one of the biggest song-publishing contracts ever negotiated on Broadway. He had agreed to collaborate with U.S. Songwriter Vincent Youmans (Tea for Two) on 15 numbers for a new musical show. He was combing Hollywood agents out of his vaselined hair. He had gathered together an orchestra of some 60 pieces and turned Carnegie Hall into a cave of Caribbean melody...