Word: dossier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy war planners at once dug into their secret files for a dossier on the man who thus became their most direct enemy...
...rolls ammunition for it." Said Manhattan's excitable PM: "Pernicious and irresponsible ... it might have been calculated to do the greatest amount of damage to the emerging comity of nations." Corliss Lament's top-heavily titled National Council of American-Soviet Friendship unrolled a 20-page dossier, quoting in parallel columns White and those who apparently disagreed with him. These included Churchill, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Willkie, some of them obviously caught in mid-paragraph while making politic remarks about an ally. Sometimes N.C.A. S.F.'s rebuttal "proof" consisted in comparing White's prejudices with somebody else...
Self-Help. What China had suffered in the common war against Japan was massively and dramatically documented. In Washington, China's member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Council, Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang, made public a 400-page report to UNRRA. It was a dossier of China's misery...
Said a Frenchman: "Vichy? It is a basket of crabs." Petty officials spent their time compiling dossiers on each other, hoping that they could save themselves by betraying their colleagues to the liberating Allies. One thick accusation by X against Y reached London on the same day as a bulgy dossier by Y against...
...Wylie, our Louisville correspondent, gathered a fascinating dossier on General Patton at the Armored Force School at Fort Knox-a dossier which began: "The best unprinted stories about General Patton probably are those which are not very printable." And from Washington our War Department reporter, Jim Shepley, sent another 16 pages-much of it off-the-record information which cannot be published...