Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submitting a casserole called Baked Macedoine wrote that its U.S. ingredients were hardly as exciting as those she had been used to in Alaska where "I cooked many wonderful meals of moose, caribou, wild sheep and goat, halibut and salmon fresh from the ocean, grayling and trout from the clear, cold rivers. Bear has even been on my menu...
...swing violently left. Henry Wallace had tried to lead him that way and he had brushed Wallace off with in difference, even with contempt. But it was clear now that Republican conservatism had reached its peak in 1946. The voter had spoken-when he was good & ready-with a flat and incontrovertible voice. The voice announced a new chapter in U.S. politics. Harry Truman was now the absolute boss of a resurgent Democratic Party. Republicans might not be able to stand it. But the Republic could...
...despair many Americans will draw an in exact parallel with Czechoslovakia. Although the extent of the tie between the Chinese Communists and Moscow is not clear, it is obvious that their form of communism is radically different from the Russian variety. The Chinese brand is based not on an urban but on an agrarian economy. Industrial backwardness prevents the quick establishment of a police state. Moreover, since the Communists must use the same bureaucracy to carry out its administration, they must modify their demands to make them acceptable to this group...
Well of course no previous arrangements had been made! But when it was clear that hundreds more people were coming than could be admitted, I think that arrangements might have been made--if not immediately, at least when the suggestion had been proffered. Such relays by amplifier have been made before, and the equipment could have been set up in fifteen minutes. Indeed, several people informed me that the necessary equipment was sitting no farther away than the floor below, in the psycho-acoustic laboratory. In this way 500 more people could have been satisfied, capacity the 50 students...
...became clear that the Democrats had won 11 seats in the House away from the Republicans. They were leading in the fight for 12 more. They were leading in all 11 contested Senate fights. This meant that Dewey was not getting big enough majorities anywhere to pull other Republican candidates along with him in a major sweep. It meant that the 80th Congress was getting thumbs-down from the American people. At 1 a.m. Truman was still in front. At 2 a.m. his popular majority had grown while his electoral probability had dropped. Nobody knew just how it would...