Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov was met at the airport by French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and other French officials. After brief ceremonies he was whisked to the Soviet embassy where a guard slammed the heavy wooden gates behind...
...that night, Wednesday, Red Top--the crew's headquarters on the Thames--was fanned brightly by a post-regatta celebration as the climax of its brief spark of 1947 glory...
Grizzled old desert sheiks, who remembered the brief days of victory, wept as Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...
Adele Marsh went to Reno in 1943 to end her brief wartime marriage to a Navy C.P.O. While she waited out the six weeks that make divorce-seekers legal residents of Nevada, she got a job behind the roulette wheel at Harold's Club, Reno's immense, noisy gambling joint which spends some of its million-dollar profits to endow scholarships at the University of Nevada (TIME, June 17, 1946). She also enrolled at the university, which is only a few blocks from Harold...
...crowds which had turned a mass celebration of the liberation of Paris into a tumultuous demonstration against Perón's pro-Nazi military regime. A year later, police and nationalists had sprung Juan Perón back to power after spontaneous democratic clamor forced him into a brief, one-day exile...