Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revision. Original requests from Western European countries had simply listed what each country felt it needed. The requests had been carefully screened and trimmed down to size by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Then a committee of State, Defense and EGA officials had worked out the all but final figures...
...commission's final gesture, an arbitration proposal backed by the U.S. and Britain, had been accepted by Pakistan, rejected by India. Abdullah's delegates passed a resolution denouncing the "arbitration offer sponsored by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee" as "yet another device to deny freedom to the people of Kashmir." Nehru told them: "My anxiety has always been for a fair and impartial plebiscite." There was, however, a noticeable lessening of Indian enthusiasm for a plebiscite. Instead, the Indian press trotted out the old charge that Pakistan had entered Kashmir as a military aggressor and ought...
Dodger Day. Exactly 36 minutes later in Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the Dodgers hauled in the National League pennant with a 9-7 ten-inning victory over the Phillies. In the final week, they had gone to the top of the league (after six weeks in second place) by winning a crashing doubleheader in the rain over the Boston Braves (9-2 and 8-0). But they had less reason to thank their own bats than the batty stretch-run performance of the Cardinals...
...wasn't until the final quarter that the team seemed to find itself, and then it was too late. Crimson forwards had control of the period, scoring one late goal and almost tallying with another...
...final quarter the Crimson put on a rally. Only one goal actually materialized, but in comparison with the earlier periods, the fourth period showed the Crimson at its best...