Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The women of 1946 (most of them) had their men back, a joy tempered by fears of wars to come. The nations were quarreling again; the year's news was dominated by the opposed efforts of Russia's Molotov and America's Byrnes to reap or hold...
Before the year was out, however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur...
Byrnes at 67 had accomplished the big job of 1946, and in so doing he had grown in stature more than any other public figure of the year. As the year began many regarded him as a mere fixer. Yet by patient, purposeful tinkering with the details of the satellite...
The Cool of the Evening. In South Carolina, when the sun sets and the day's work is done (but the strain of the day still lingers in mind and muscle), when the restless dust starts to settle back on the cotton fields, men gather on verandahs and wharves...
Arthur Vandenberg would be missed. By supporting Secretary Byrnes in his policy of "patience as well as firmness" with the Russians, he had kept U.S. foreign policy on a high bi-partisan plane. But in the future, as chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, he might wield...