Word: crimean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With an assist from some of the 14,000 bottles of wine and vodka Stalin had sent down to Yalta, F.D.R., Churchill and Uncle Joe were letting their hair down. They were further cheered because they had closed some pretty big deals. The next day, Feb. 11, 1945, the Crimean Conference would be over. Reminiscing, F.D.R. told the others how his recovery program had prevented disorder, maybe even revolution in the U.S. Churchill observed that Russia's one-party system made politics easy for Stalin, and Uncle Joe allowed that one party was a great convenience. Perhaps to cheer...
Hadden often pretended ignorance, if he thought a story unclear or inadequate. Once, reading of the death of a general, a survivor of the Crimean War, he demanded a big story and shifted into Brooklynese to tell an editor why. "It ain't duh general, it's duh war," he growled. "Tell 'em what duh Crime...
...least 20 times the influence. The sedate, 157-year-old Observer is only six years the junior of the hoary London Times,* and proud of its past. It missed the boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean War. In 1820 it broke the law by printing news of a trial before it was over. Fined ?500, the paper refused to pay; the law was soon forgotten...
Soon after the Crimean War, Britain shipped to Argentina a holdful of war surplus: one locomotive, several coaches, and six miles of track originally ordered for the siege of Sevastopol. Argentines promptly called the locomotive La Portena, proudly watched it chuff out of Buenos Aires in August 1857. In the years that followed, the six miles of track grew to 27,000-over half of it broad Russian gauge (5 ft. 6 in.) like La, Portena's. Because Britain kept her finger in the succulent Argentine railway pie, British investors eventually owned 74% of Argentina's trackage...
...Packard, rode to the Quai d'Orsay and through the iron gates to the French Foreign Ministry. The diplomats of the victorious Allies were assembled there in the graceful old Salon de 1'Horloge, with its five big windows overlooking the murky Seine, where in 1856 the Crimean War had come to an end, where Clemenceau had ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and where the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war had been signed...