Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest news in Congress last week was not a speech, nor a debate, nor a bill dropped into a hopper. It was an event which took place unannounced, almost unnoticed. It was merely a proposal for a practical move to enable the U.S. to make sense at the peace table when war ends...
...event Wild felt that there was no reason to suppose a rift had been created between American and British generals by the De Gaulle versus Giraud issue. "On the face of it the new agreement between the Free French and the African French may be the most important announcement yet received from the conference," he said...
...behind the screen of words we have heard thus far, the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill has laid a real foundation for coordinated United Nations action, then it was an event of historic significance; otherwise it can mean very little," Wild said, although adding that the evidence at present indicated that a great deal more had been decided at Casablanca than could or would be released...
...Juniors were behind this latest attempt to start a college publication at Harvard. And there was plenty of about its reception by the student body, which event then was student body, which even then was continually being attacked for its "indifference." Five papers had gone before, and been brushed off coldly, and the sixth, the erudite Advocate, was securely by established by then. There seemed little room for another...
...which should have established more drastic controls earlier in the winter. Best explanation why the action was taken now was that the East's oil and gas reserves (the amount is a military secret) were running dangerously low. OPA hoped to avert a serious crisis in the event of a future cold spell or more pressing military needs...