Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time the British press and public, which now disapprove of any needless "Winnie" junkets, were glad to see him go; his summary summation of the Greek situation had not been in the best British diplomatic tradition. The London Times called the journey "an act of statesmanlike courage," the Labor Daily Herald, "the first constructive move towards a settlement that has come either from the Greeks or the British." If the Prime Minister were indeed backtracking, this would not be the first time in his long career that he had first breathed defiance, then hearkened to the voice of public...
Volkssturm members captured at Metz, some in regular army uniforms and others in civilian clothes, wore arm bands in scribed "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht." They were pathetic specimens, unanimously glad to be out of the war. Their fellows in East Prussia made a dismal showing against the Reds, and Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, Germany's top military commentator, publicly belittled them as fighting...
Clerks in the leading emporiums are not prone to reveal their personal defense mechanisms, but they are glad to chuckle at the desperate measures formerly respectable citizens have adopted in the emergency. Employees at Michaels' Drug Store have lost all respect for an aged couple who, after buying at the store together for years, sud- denly feigned non-acquaintance one morn at the peak of the crisis in order to get two packs under the stringent one-to-a-customer basis...
...swept out the Republican (Ed Schorr) machine, swept in a new kind of Democratic politician: gangling, idealistic, good-government crusader Frank Lausche, 48, mayor of Cleveland. A party independent, Frank Lausche beat a party hack, James Garfield ("Jovial Jim") Stewart, longtime mayor of Cincinnati and roly-poly, flag-waving, glad-handing master of political clich...
Britons, who regard Russians as rather peculiar foreigners but not sinister bogeymen, and mean every word of the 20-year Anglo-Soviet treaty, were glad to hear it, but not surprised. What they wanted to hear from Mr. Churchill was whether he had succeeded in solving the Polish problem, and on what terms. Also, what about the Balkans...