Word: crystalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Minister Molotov and the others was given a crystal-clear exposition of U.S. attitudes and intentions. In a dispassionate, soberly frank speech last week, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Russia that its own attitude of distrust and its belief in the inevitability of World War III were at the root of the "continued if not increasing tension" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...labor plans to strike for another round of wage increases, "it s certainly our duty to make it crystal clear to the American public, including the workers themselves, just what they are heading into. They are heading for depression and unemployment just as certainly and logically as night follows...
...more about him until he turned up as line coach at Fordham. Then everybody heard about his undentable Fordham line-nicknamed the Seven Blocks of Granite-which twice (in 1936-37) stopped Pittsburgh's powerhouse cold. That got him a job at Boston College, where Leahy made himself crystal clear the first day: "I did not come here to lose." B.C. bounced from national obscurity into two Bowl games in two years...
...defeat cut Prime Minister King's already slim margin in the House of Commons to 123 seats (out of 243), and set political pundits staring into their crystal balls. There are two more federal by-elections coming up - in late October - in Toronto-Parkdale, and Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. The Liberals already concede Toronto-Parkdale to the Tories ; it has never elected a Liberal. But Portage la Prairie, like Pontiac, is vacant because of a Liberal's death. If the Liberals lose that one too (their chances are only fair), the Liberals would barely control the House. There...
Plugs & Slugs. In his new job Clarke is ringmaster for a temperamental menagerie of talent, including Poison Penman John O'Donnell and Broadway Columnist Danton Walker, who has a crystal ball suffering from cataract. One of Clarke's chores is a daily conference with Editorial Writer Reuben Maury and Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor (who used to get their signals from Patterson). Sitting in with them now is a brand-newcomer, quiet, 44-year-old Donald Thompson, an American Weekly graduate. Clarke hired him to backstop Maury. Thompson expects no trouble in adapting himself to Daily News policies-plugs...