Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course the earlier Allied effort set the stage for the knockout...
After that he leaned back, fired up a big black cigar and invited the committee to do its worst. In two days of questioning him it made almost no real effort to shake his denials or probe his failure to recollect details...
American, British and French officials now agree with the Germans who voted for him that Adenauer is by far the best choice at this stage of the great effort to bring Germany into the free world...
...that effort, the old man from the wine country has pledged all his foxiness, all his sobriety, and all his faith...
British traders made another highly specialized export effort last week. In Manhattan's Washington Market, the season's first grouse went on sale. On hand were 103 brace (i.e., 206 birds), at $10.50 a brace, or about $3.50 a pound. That was the standard price for grouse; there was no extra charge for the fact that the birds had been bagged by George VI and his hunting party in Scotland (TIME, Aug. 22). The thing for U.S. gourmets to do, of course, would be to wash the illustrious birds down with a full cup of English mead; pyment...