Word: faits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Striped Pants. On the London-Washington diplomatic political front, tight censorship was a fait accompli despite the U.S. State Department's denial that it had anything to do with it. The hard fact was that only the official view of events affecting the future of the world could now be safely sent from London...
...could afford to pay any amount, for the Government as a wartime customer needed all the coal the miners could dig. After a suitably decorous interval WLB would approve the new contract (retroactive to April 1), and the mines would be returned to the helpless operators, the contract a fait accompli. (No tears fell for the operators: a February price increase, approved by OPA, took care of added pay for the sixth working...
...confusion are all too likely to be that the University's well-considered plans for formalizing relations between Harvard and Radcliffe will be defeated by the protests of back-to-the-kitchen traditionalists, that the University shrink from considering for the future what the Globe has announced as a fait accompli at the present time...
...most perplexing boundary problem facing the United Nations. Aside from the claims and counterclaims of the Polish government in exile and the master in the Kremlin, little has been done by the Allied powers to harmonize these discordant factions in their own camp before the rigidity of a territorial fait accompli makes a conference-table settlement impossible...
...fait, Or di ram parts ui uach uer so ga lant