Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock in trade. "If you once get yourself in a frame of mind where you know that you have a task ahead and it has to be done carefully and it has to be done just right," he said, rocking gently back & forth beneath the Stars & Stripes and the Great Seal of the United States, "then there comes a certain calm and peace of mind which are the essence of the administration of justice...
Wrote the big leader to the little boss: "The experience of the last war has shown that the German and Soviet peoples made the largest sacrifice in that war, that both these peoples have the largest potentialities in Europe to complete great actions of world significance ... I wish you success on this new and glorious road. Long live and prosper the unified, independent, democratic, peace-loving Germany...
...little Willie Pieck buckled down tc his new job in Berlin's eastern sector, fat and florid as usual, thinking about great actions of world significance...
...great day for Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet and for the Greek people to whom he had tried so hard to bring peace. Earlier this year, as the Greek army launched its summer offensive, Van Fleet had predicted that Greece's Red guerrillas would be wiped out before year's end (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week his prophecy was proved right. From a secret radio station in Communist Rumania, Greece's Communist guerrilla leaders announced that they had had enough. Military operations, said the radio, would cease forthwith, "to avoid total destruction of Greece...
...meeting was then opened to questions from the floor. The first query was, what percentage of Coop purchases are made by members? "Seventy-two to seventy-eight percent," answered Mr. Cole, and then, as an obiter dictum, divulged what he called "the Great Mystery of the Harvard Cooperative Society:" why some people pay a dollar to join and then buy only five cents of goods...