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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Words & Tools. Nowhere did the President seem more anxious to pass on the burden of decision than in his precipitous retreat from wartime controls. Said he of the economy in general: "Private enterprise must be given the greatest possible freedom" to continue the expansion of our economy." Said he of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Cheers, No Jeers | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Hard-working Special Counsel Clark Clifford had stuck to his desk over the holidays, hammering together the President's annual message on the state of the Union. But it needed a final polishing before it could be taken up to the Hill on Jan. 6. And the President also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Farmer Boy | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Far from such fun & games was a grisly speech by Major General Curtis E. LeMay, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. The future looked black to General LeMay, except for deadly flashes of atomic light. "Our frontier now lies across the Arctic wastes of the polar region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Talk | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

A fellow legislator, with a quick thought on recent terrorism, offered an endorsement. Said he: "This suggestion would be useful if certain people were thus reminded of 'Thou shalt not kill.' " But the council dropped the suggestion after a member asked: How would the naming system look to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Lawgivers | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Later still, in 1945, Zacharias was again recalled, this time to prepare and deliver a series of radio talks in Japanese. Fourteen of these talks were beamed to Tokyo between May and August. They reached influential Japanese up to and including the Emperor, says their author, and were more instrumental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifteen Guns | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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