Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When that day came, Winston Churchill stepped to a microphone in London. His rolling periods swept across the world by short wave. With deep emotion he said: "We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing, but let us not forget for a moment the toils and efforts that lie ahead. . . . Advance, Britain! Long live the cause of freedom! God save the King...
This distinction was set forth in a brief memo and a confused problem was ended with President Truman's characteristically simple: "It is so ordered...
...partisans gave him short shrift. He was bluntly informed that he had been condemned to death. After a brief "trial," the 16 other Fascists in the Duce's party were also adjudged guilty. The Duce's last words as he faced the firing squad were...
...slab of stone; but only one man, a six-foot patriarch with snowy beard and flowing white locks, saw the angel himself. The lone wit ness was Father George Rapp, founder of the first of two Utopias that flowered and withered in New Harmony early last century. Exploring their brief history. Mar guerite Young has written a sometimes difficult, often fascinating book whose erudite, poetical meandering explores some forgotten corners in the attic of U.S. history...
...Hammer & Sickle flag was flying on Lee Mansion, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, when Molotov paused for a brief rest and brush-up after his flight from Moscow. Then Mr. Stettinius took him over to meet President Truman for the first time. As always, Molotov had to speak through an interpreter. When Stettinius and Molotov emerged, they were not smiling. From the President down, Mr. Molotov's U.S. hosts were prepared to look their guest in the eye, be tougher with him than they had ever been before. So were the British. It was, they...