Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there wasn't any free stuff, and there wasn't much excitement. In 1944, the reformers committed an act of political cowardice. They ran Guitar Player Jimmy Davis for governor. Davis, who wanted to go to Hollywood, was a good candidate but a bad governor. He was just supposed to keep the seat warm until Sam Jones could come back...
...vortex of battle. One morning a Soviet jeep with five soldiers aboard shot out from the Russian side of the square, raced across it, darted ten yards up the Potsdamerstrasse in the British sector. Two soldiers jumped out; one grabbed a U.S. newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian stopped and walked calmly back...
Nevertheless, the Communists were highly sensitive to the few thrusts that the British and French delegates (but not Cannon) managed to get in. When the British proposed that the question of free navigation on the Danube for all nations be ruled on by the World Court, Vishinsky said that the Court's judges were incompetent on the issue because they could not be impartial. "I don't accept the contention that politics ends where law begins. Law is the instrument of politics...
...tough Minister for States Affairs, has hurled a challenge at the Nizam: "Accede or die." Even peace-talking Premier Jawaharlal Nehru threatened Hyderabad. With contempt he said: "It is a completely wrong notion to talk of war with Hyderabad ... If there are to be wars they must be with free countries. But ... if and when it is considered necessary we shall have military operations against Hyderabad...
...stay on," he said. "What else can I do?" The smarter advisers of the Nizam, who still boasts the proud title "Faithful Ally of the British Government," know that his best hope of staying on his throne lies in becoming also the faithful though reluctant ally of free India...