Word: department
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this sit a few key men in the Occupation. Everyone wonders when they are going to leave. The Austrians don't want them, yet fear the Russians if the Americans depart. They wonder if American food with them. But Austria has found ways before, so perhaps the situation is not so serious as it seems...
...idea of the picture was first conceived by MGM early in 1949 when two investigators for the studio discovered the work of the Legal Medicine Depart- ment and thought it would be a good subject for a semi-documentary crime film...
...sparkling clarity of speech, his remorseless logic, his deft and delicate handling of clashing national views made him the conference star. He presided over his own delegation briskly and competently, telling them: "Gentlemen, we must now decide just what is our official position so that when we depart from it we will know what we are departing from." The professor was learning fast how to tie fancy knots in his diplomatic ropes...
...Washington, Lorenzo Winslow, White House architect and historian, snorted. The land on which the White House was built, said he, was purchased by the U.S. Government about 1790 from one David Burns. Its title is free & clear. Nevertheless, a representative for the Spanish families will shortly depart for Washington with a load of aged document, to hire a lawyer and put in a claim...
Stuffy McInnis and his 18 best baseball players depart for warmer pastures tomorrow morning, but the white-haired coach and his boys may find Dixie's welcome not so warm. Early season reports indicate that the South is loaded again...