Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost anybody in TIME'S employ-in or out of the Editorial Departments. TIME'S Personnel Division keeps a file of everyone in the company who speaks any foreign language fluently. (In case there is a sudden need for quick translation, we can be fluent at the drop of a telephone in 28 languages ranging from Afrikaans to Ukrainian...
...first attack (Aug. 9), witnessed by Marshal Tito while fishing near Bled, had cost no lives. The one casualty: a Turkish captain passenger in the U.S. plane, who was wounded by fire from the Yugoslav fighters. The nine crew members (including Captain William Crombie, veteran of 23 supply-drop missions to Tito's forces during the war) and passengers were taken to Yugoslav officers' quarters in Ljubljana. There they were given "everything we asked for except our freedom," questioned repeatedly "on all subjects...
...suggestion of the Liberal Union, the Food Relief Committee is asking students to drop books which they would otherwise sell at the end of the term into boxes which will be placed in each House today...
Harry Truman's triumph was less significant than a defeat would have been. Had Axtell lost, the President would have suffered a drop in prestige everywhere. He had said of Slaughter: "If he's right, I'm wrong." The result in Missouri's primary did not necessarily mean that all the voters thought the President was right. It did show that among some Democrats at least the President could marshal support for his program of middle-of-the-roadism cum New Deal trimmings...
...weeks' wrangle over procedures, the Conference got down to its business-the drafting of peace treaties with Germany's satellites. On every issue confronting the Conference, the pattern would be determined by Russia's effort to squeeze from victory in the war the last drop of political advantage in the postwar world. Whether Russia's dynamic advance would continue or be halted peaceably depended largely on how much Molotov at Paris enlarged Moscow's somewhat limited ability to win friends & influence peoples...