Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smaller displays, stating, among other things, that U. S. business profits were evidence of the Cold War" paying off," that American unemployment was climbing as wages fell, that only one half of one percent of young U. S. farmers own their won farms...
...hours before the Senate was to learn that McMahon's prophecy was cold, disturbing fact, the fate of the arms plan was still far from certain. Sober, economy-minded Walter George of Georgia, trying to cut the $1 billion appropriation for the Atlantic pact nations by $500 million, argued doggedly that the U.S. could not run the risk of bleeding itself white for Europe. "To the extent that we weaken America," he declared, "to the extent that we weaken the strength of our arm, we undoubtedly cut the life out of the whole North Atlantic community...
...side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred to as "the ashcan school...
Statisticians poring over the reports found some cold comfort. This year's total, whatever it might be, could not be compared directly with the 1916 total of 30,000 cases, because the U.S. population has increased by about half in the meantime. Also, because so many milder cases are now properly diagnosed and reported, the proportion of crippling and fatal cases is far less. (The death rate among youngsters under 15 is now one-fifteenth the rate of the 1916 mortality...
During the course of a four-hour conversation with the university geologist, Tito traced his current "cold war" with Russia back to 1944 when he became boss of Yugoslavia...