Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians meanwhile were giving an increasingly clear indication of what their own strategy would be. All over Europe last week, they trumpeted two slogans. The first was "peace." Andrei Gromyko, who makes news whenever he cracks a smile, left Lake Success for Moscow and remarked: "We have to work for peace, both the Americans and the Russians. They can work together if they want to." Said Moscow's New Times: "The Council of Foreign Ministers could actually become a turning point in the course of postwar settlement...
...were in top fighting form. They could point to a united Western Europe whose people, American observers believed, were now better off than at any time since 1914 (excepting a few short years of peak prosperity). That was perhaps the West's biggest asset. Wrote London's clear-eyed Economist: "If the victory at Berlin proves anything, it is that the way to deal with the Russians is to make stiff terms and to stick to them inflexibly . . . Firmness is now justified up to the hilt...
Plump, red-faced Wilhelm Kreikmeyer said expansively that he was proud that the railways could again link East & West and thus fulfill the people's demand for a united Germany. The implication was clear: Germans owed it all to Russian generosity and good will...
...crew. A big man himself, he has no time for little men: "Unless he's six-feet-four and his hands hang down around his knees, he can't be a good oarsman." At Cambridge Bridge, the coach went wild yelling at a flock of dinghies to clear the course. In a practice spin at 2,000 meters, the varsity shell barely nosed out the freshmen. The time was slow and Coach Bolles shook his head gloomily...
Andover was the only one of these three that lost. In these tough games the squad battled but failed on the finer points of play-making and team work, while in the contests where it had a clear victory from the start, it has tended to stoop to playing the opponent's type of game...