Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have served as state and federal prosecutor for many years. I know that conviction of the innocent is rare indeed, but it did happen here, and it hurts to know that some of my fellow Americans are feasting upon...
...people, who had begun to think that the Marshall Plan would fix up everything, had trouble focusing their minds on this distant crisis. The President was sunning himself at Key West. State Department officials said they had known all along that it was going to happen; they were only surprised by its suddenness. But the upshot of the matter was just what it was nine years ago. Czechoslovakia had fallen-this time to Stalin...
...best die-away officialese, Cripps had explained what might happen next: "If it becomes necessary to cut our dollar imports further, we shall be almost bound to have to cut raw materials. That will undoubtedly cause inconvenience." This characteristically deadpan remark was British understatement with a vengeance. One of the many things Cripps did not say-though implicit in what he said-is that one ultimate method of closing a trade gap is starving to death...
Ehrgott, the eighth of his family who has served in Custer's old cavalry regiment, the ambush-conscious U.S. 7th, pointed out through his interpreter that darkness was excellent cover, and that if you deployed properly ambushes did not happen...
...Scott won the women's world championship for the second year in a row, making it all three for her too. Several outclassed rivals, including overtrained U.S. Champion Gretchen Merrill, didn't bother to compete. But Barbara Ann practiced with unflagging zeal, cautiously observing that "anything can happen." Nothing out of the ordinary...