Word: gaff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boundary of peace," all parliamentary decorum disappeared. As the delegates raged against Reimann, two men in dirty, torn, Wehrmacht greatcoats, P.W.s just released by Russia, shoved their way into the chamber and yelled: "No home, nothing to eat, and then we have to listen to this Red gaff!" Communists charged a "provocation." Said one Christian Democrat delegate gloomily: "It's a good thing we still have an Occupation Statute...
Germany's Theodor Plievier was one of that small, distinguished fraternity (including Arnold Zweig, Henri Barbusse, Remain Holland) who, after World War I, deemed it their duty to blow the gaff on military imperialism so thoroughly that a similar carnage could never come again. Plievier's main contribution was The Kaiser's Coolies, and after writing it, he fled into exile. Now, with an even more fearful war come & gone, 60-year-old Theodor Plievier has resumed his old theme song...
...that and the threat of more to come, Lewis had wired his union chiefs: "I do hope [the miners] immediately return to work." To make sure they did, Morison had got an 80-day injunction prohibiting Lewis from ordering another walkout. Now Morison was ready to put the gaff...
...Readers Anderson and Bouras stash the gaff: TIME, not written and edited exclusively for hep cats, always labels "hot jazz" as such...
...foreign policy exists, and that it is beginning to be both clear and firm: 1) play a strong hand in Europe, 2) check the spread of Russia's totalitarian ideology in Europe and Asia. And now a fellow Cabinet officer, apparently backed by the President, had blown the gaff: there was no U.S. foreign policy after all-just conflicting opinions...