Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closest Thing Yet. The bigger the U.S. arsenal grew, the more important the Truman Committee became. As the arsenal turned into a modern-day Great Pyramid, most Washington officials still lugged just one stone, and many carried it in the wrong direction...
...Truman had bigger ideas. In selecting the Committee's chief counsel, he rejected all political recommendations, went instead to Attorney General (now Justice) Robert H. Jackson for advice. Thus he got a top-flight investigator: rotund, brilliant, young Hugh Fulton, a Justice Department prosecutor who had sent Howard C. Hopson, head of Associated Gas & Electric Corp., to prison...
Ambassador Hayes was deliberately making out a case for closer ties between Spain and the U.S., and some of his figures sounded bigger than they actually were (for example, on close examination his statement on gasoline was almost meaningless). But his statements shocked many citizens who remembered that Franco only three months ago specifically declared his admiration for the Axis, his loathing of the democracies, his desire for Axis victory in Europe...
...They Got Me Covered," Robert is lecherous, cowardly, boastful, screw-whacky, and undoubtedly the worst reporter that ever pounded Dorothy Lamour's typewriter. He had special tips on Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Quisling--but forget to cable "Amalgamated Press" about it because he was snooping for bigger news. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only loreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back work that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him; fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation's capital...
...yard free style events. The rest of the squad will be likely to see somewhat stiffer events, as they prepare to try out their somewhat ragged Ivy League record of two wins and three losses. The Jayvees will stage a tussle with the Boston Boys Club before the bigger boys take...