Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressure groups are on the march.. . . The gold dust thrown in all our eyes, by political abracadabra, only confuses, with gain to no one except temporary power to the economic magicians. We must mix brains with our brawn if we would keep our world leadership. We must steady ourselves in these emotional sweeps and keep our heads or the ship of democracy will wallow in this sea of confusion, spring a leak and disintegrate. . . . The whole world is watching us, amazed at the exhibition of a giant who cannot pull himself together even to take care...
Answer: a bill to give FLC the right to make such swaps has been gathering dust in Congressional pigeonholes since last fall...
Buried in Dust. Of the three services, only the Navy would say that it was ready for even limited action. Said Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, Deputy C.N.O. for Operations : "Within two weeks we can put a fast carrier task force into action in the western Pacific and another simultaneously in the Atlantic . . . and expand them rapidly...
...backlog of other legislation gathering dust in Congress affected all the services equally. The proposed 20% pay boost was still just a proposal. In an election year, no one liked even to talk about universal military training. Plans for merger of the armed forces were stalemated. Congress was still thinking it all over...
Churchill was not the man to turn away from that challenge. The Waldorf's glitter disclosed the same enthusiastic fighter which the House of Commons' gloom and dust had known for 45 years...