Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street below; later electric cars went overhead with a clattering roar like garbage cans rolling down endless flights of stairs. In the shadow of the "El" taxis wove wildly among pillars, and in the murky streets blocks of laundries, pastrami shops, employment agencies, dingy bars and doubtful bookshops grew like mushrooms...
Though Moscow's Pravda insisted angrily that no issues between the great powers were insoluble, distrust and tension grew. Molotov snapped to the Council of Foreign Ministers: "You would think I was accused and on trial...
...shadowy outlines of order would not be clear or put to the test until the children grew up. But it was a hopeful week. In London the Council of Foreign Ministers was patching up Europe (see Conferences). The liberation of Asia had signally failed to produce explosions and cataclysms gloomily prophesied a month ago (see The Liberation...
...biggest research organization in the history of the world." Beginning in the fall of 1940, when the nation's top physicists began to gather in a few offices lent by M.I.T., the Laboratory quietly took over a milk plant, a shoe-polish factory, an airport. Eventually, it grew to a team of 3,800, including 700 physicists, twice as many as worked on the atomic bomb...
Sitting pretty well left of center, Roth does not worry about a burgeoning U.S.S.R. He has nothing but contempt for the power politics which would use a strong and militaristic Japan as a bulwark against communism. In the same category, he places the Grew-inspired policy of catering to Hirohito "because he might turn out to be the sole stabilizing force" in a Nippon ruptured by defeat. Except, he says, for speeding the surrender (now accomplished), the U.S. cannot do business with the Emperor...