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Word: formful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to leave many times before, but President Truman had always kept him on. Now the time was appropriate. The blockade of Berlin was ending. The Western Germans were ready to form their own federal government (see INTERNATIONAL). In Clay's own words, "the punitive phases" of the Allied occupation were finished; the State Department was almost set to take over. Last week the President announced that General Clay would turn over his command next week to his deputies, Lieut. General Clarence Huebner and Major General George P. Hays, who would stand by until the State Department could move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: End of a Chapter | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...just sit down and let Russia absorb the world and do nothing about it?" Equally annoyed but more restrained, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg chided Wallace: "I cannot condone your conduct in going about insisting that your country ... is bent on world conquest in one form or another." But in two hours of shouted questions and evasive answers, Henry Wallace had one response which nobody challenged. Said Henry: "I think for her own interests Russia would be utterly foolish to carry out a policy of expansion at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Next Witness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Iraq's King Feisal II, 14, entered the third form at Harrow, where he will be addressed as Feisal Hussein in class, will use his title only on vacations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...strange river) and analyze weather conditions to determine whether the time that afternoon will be fast or slow. He then talks things over briefly with his stroke. There is not much to say, because the pattern for the race seldom varies from a pre-established form...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Long Training, Sheer Strength, and an Excellent Coach Give Harvard Great Varsities Every Year | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

Once the shell has settled at its regular pace, the main problem is for every man to concentrate on form, power, and timing. The coxswain maintains the latter rudder handles, saving his voice to tell the stroke what beat he is setting and where his boast stands in relation to the opposition...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Long Training, Sheer Strength, and an Excellent Coach Give Harvard Great Varsities Every Year | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

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