Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
...Blueprint. The I.L.G.W.U. was already taking on its distinctive character. The amazing Protocol of Peace, devised by young louis Brandeis to settle the cloakmakers' "Great Revolt" of 1910, was a blueprint years ahead of its time. Its borads of grievances and arbitration were precursors of the WLB and NLRB...
...should be simple, but it depends on neat execution. I want every house I build to be a stepping stone to the future, and modern architecture gets a black eye if it's not backed by minute structural documentation." (Neutra has been known to provide up to 150 blueprint pages for a single two-bedroom house...
What it does spell out with plodding insistence is a wildly improbable blueprint of a Communist Party cell which for sheer indiscretion and moral decay would surprise even the FBI. Fashioned in the image of Hollywood gangsters, the hard core of the cell includes a couple of strong-arm goons who stand guard over the indoctrination classes, a party scout who looks like a prosperous bookie, and a bigtime commissar who welcomes nonparty members into the secret sessions of his local politburo...
...Britain and France met and agreed on a blueprint for Western Germany which included all but one of these provisions...