Word: free
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...later had to pay the money back when his contract with the publisher was voided because he was a minor. That was luck in disguise. In the years that followed, he made enough from La Cumparsita-and other tangos-to stake him to a comfortable life in Paris and free-spending afternoons at many a racetrack...
...formation of such a defensive group of free states would not be a counsel of despair but a message of hope. It would not mean that we regarded a third world war as inevitable, but that ... to prevent such a war [we] would organize so as to confront the forces of Communist expansionism with an overwhelming preponderance of moral, economic and military force ... so used that the free nations cannot be defeated one by one. No measure less than this will...
...Planning. For seven months the government had tried to screw up its courage to say those last seven words. In September, St. Laurent told the United Nations that the free democracies hoped they would not have to form a security union within...
Already there had been three-cornered conversations between Washington, London and Ottawa. St. Laurent hinted at an early conference: "It may be that the free states, or some of them, will soon find it necessary to consult together on how best to establish such a collective security league." They might meet in Ottawa...
Died. Wilhelm von Opel, 76, Germany's gruff, free-heiling mass-producer of autos; in Wiesbaden, Germany. He inherited his father's bicycle factory in the '90s, turned out his first all-German car in 1902, produced about a million with the help of Ford's assembly-line techniques, which he admittedly "stole with my eyes" during a visit to Detroit...