Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first clear news which came out of the pandemonium of Philadelphia this week, the U.S. took heart and hope. So did the anxious world. For the big news from Philadelphia was that the Republican Party, which already controlled Congress and by all the signs would soon have the presidency as well, would not retreat from internationalism...
...closing days made one fact clear. The Republican Party-like the Democratic-is composed of two factions: responsible progressives and conservative standpatters who hanker for "normalcy." The progressives, led by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, won. But not without forcing such House conservatives as penny-pinching John Taber, Michigan's Jesse Wolcott and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen to eat crow...
Just to make the picture clear where it counted, ECA sent ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy H. Struve Hensel down to Buenos Aires (with his bride-his second) to pass the word to Juan Perón & Co. "Why should we pour dollars down here," he asked Argentines, "for something we can buy cheaper elsewhere...
...opposite sex, you must sit facing each other. It is not good etiquette to sit alongside each other when there is room to sit opposite . . . Refrain from walking after dusk with one of the opposite sex . . . Refrain from bringing up unrefined topics in conversation . . . Always make clear your intentions...
...full story of Dunkirk-"the greatest evacuation in the history of war." Many ships went to the bottom carrying eyewitnesses, logs and records with them. Many rescuers lost "all count of times and days," and after bringing home their load of men, collapsed in sleep and never recaptured a clear remembrance of their work. But British Naval Analyst A. D. Divine (who skippered the yawl Little Ann in the great evacuation) has tried to collect every available account, and to place each one in its proper place within the great, overall story. He has succeeded so brilliantly that Dunkirk takes...