Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James F. Byrnes was fed up too. With steady patience, the U.S. Secretary of State had listened to Foreign Minister Molotov's distortion of U.S. motives. He had watched poker-faced when Molotov (whom the British Foreign Office privately calls Aunt Molly) rudely bounced out to snub speeches he violently disapproved and with an expression of "the heart has its reasons that reason knows not of," sat them out in the corridor...
Thorn of the Cactus. Between World Wars I & II, Palestine's population grew apace-the Jews largely by immigration, the Arabs by propagation. Arabs now number over one million, twice the 1922 figure; the Palestinian Jews number over half a million. The springs of Jewish colonizing vigor, amply fed by the money of world Jewry, flowed out on to the desert. U.S. Jews have contributed almost $100 million to Palestine, invested $50 million more. The "hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land," which Mark Twain saw in 1867, was dotted with green fields and citrus groves...
...other reasons, some heads already rolled in the sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...
...basic economic and ideological reasons. For over a year the wealth of the West has poured into western Germany. Around $200 million worth of food was shipped in to feed the Germans cut off from normal food supplies by the Russian boundary. Nearly a million well-paid, well-fed British and U.S. troops aroused the envy (if sometimes the dislike) of the Germans...
Salzburg Burgers, among the best fed in all of Austria, arrived at the opening in expensive clothes, though many had to walk to the Festspielhaus over cobblestone streets...