Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane landed, things looked scarcely brighter. Andrei Vishinsky appeared, wear ing the steel grey Soviet diplomatic uniform with its star like a marshal's. The U.S. Secretary of State wore a plain overcoat and a neat grey Homburg. Reported one U.S. correspondent: "So in these strange times, a civilian dressed up like a general met a general dressed like a civilian...
...Deal as one of Felix Frankfurter's "Happy Hotdogs." Brain-Truster Landis helped write the Securities Act of 1933, became SEC chairman in 1935, then dean of Harvard's law school. But Landis was soon back in Washington, where he ran the Office of Civilian Defense...
Cache. In Frankfurt, Germany, when U.S. occupation authorities ordered all civilian weapons turned in, law-abiding Bavarians came forward with 100 crossbows, darts, popguns...
...went the rescue planes again-Superforts and tiny amphibians. But before the crash had been located, a rescuing B-29 blazed up from an engine fire near Naknak. Unable to check the flames, the crew bailed out. All but one were promptly picked up by civilian search planes...
...into the club's door and open windows they heaved suitcases. In a moment there was a heavy explosion. Hours later, when the rubble had been combed, the British announced the toll: 16 killed, 14 injured. Among the dead were eight Arab employees, one British civilian, one British officer...