Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Data on Grandeur. The correspondents who saw Churchill also had, at long last, a look around Mena House, from which they were barred while the conferences lasted. They found Admiral Ernest J. King standing meekly before the transportation desk while a G.I. attendant tried to find his reservation. They sat in General George C. Marshall's chair, assembled some staggering data on the Pacific-Asian and Turkish conferences...
...uproar over the release from prison of Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley continued last week. Workers aimed their ire at Laborite Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, and Labor Minister Ernest Bevin was alarmed. He feared that the anger would 1) affect war production, 2) hurt the Labor Party in the next general election...
...higher than an "angel's footstool," is frigid, closemouthed COMINCH Ernest J. King, who was eligible for retirement last year but was retained in his post by the President. Last week he celebrated his 65th birthday. The only other men in the Navy who wear an admiral's four stars on active line duty: > White-haired, canny Chester W. Nimitz, 58, boss in the Pacific; shaggy, bull-tongued William Frederick Halsey Jr., 61, commander of the South Pacific and the only one of the full admirals besides King himself who is a naval aviator; ruddy, meticulous Harold...
...Laborite Ernest Bevin's big, powerful Transport and General Workers' Union resolved that freedom-for-Mosley indicated that "the Government is wavering in its adherence to the principles for which we are fighting." Morrison promptly broke his silence, chided T.G.W.U. for haste, and promised a full explanation to Parliament...
...extremely subtle blend of many ingredients, and the absence of even a trace of a key ingredient may make a big difference in odor and taste. Therefore, attempts to find out how to synthesize spices by chemical analysis have not been successful. But an inventive Cambridge chemist named Ernest Charlton Crocker has just produced three synthetic spices very close to the real thing-nutmeg, cinnamon and white pepper. In so doing, he has used only his remarkable nose and taste buds...