Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those who are 'creating history' [are to blame], and perhaps not even they." To his court and jailers: "I blame nobody . . . Food was good." To his prosecutor: "The wheel of history has passed over a worm." To God: "How stupid it is. Before my life's end, I am lunching and dining and taking exercise . . . God, where...
...end, when foggy hope of cooperation between the democracies and Communism swirled everywhere, labor unions of 56 nations got together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like those in France and Italy, and genuinely democratic labor organizations. Early this year, emerging out of the postwar fog of confusion, Western labor finally fully realized that the only way to "cooperate" with Communists is to submit to them. The U.S.'s C.I.O. and Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) walked...
...aging Implacable was placed in honorable retirement as a training ship. One by one, as young future admirals learned to walk her sturdy oak planks and climb her graceful rigging, her old comrades in arms faded away. By the end of World War II, during which she served in Portsmouth as an admiralty storehouse, the Implacable and her onetime adversary the Victory were the only veterans of Trafalgar still afloat. The Victory was preserved as a monument. The Implacable was left to lie among condemned men-of-war at Portsmouth Harbor's head, her rotting hulk manned only...
...oldest pro of them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with the casual despotism of an old athlete who can never quite forget that he was a fast, elusive end at West Virginia Wesleyan, where he got his nickname...
Experts called it the biggest atomic news since the end of World War II. The Atomic Energy Commission revealed last week that it is now considered practical to build a nuclear reactor which will "breed" more atomic fuel than it consumes...