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...statement wears the aspect of a . . . thoroughly disreputable performance. . . . This whole affair is nothing but a political ramp!"* When harassed Prim& Minister Attlee refused to promise full debate before nationalization steps were taken, a Tory backbencher flung an excited "Hitler !" across the House at him. In one hour of hectic debate, Winston Churchill was on his feet 25 times, plainly relishing every minute of it. He had a good case, and worried Laborites knew...
...spotless, had sailed out of San Francisco on a two weeks' voyage to New Orleans. A wireless message from the War Shipping Administration changed her course for Chile. Over vodka and rum in Shanghai a sailor recalled that first leg of a voyage that was to last eight hectic months: "It was like a bunch of amateurs was running things...
...also wonder how those ice-cream whites would look after a washing without being able to press them or iron them. Besides the dress uniform will never be as practical as the present blues because after a hectic liberty all you have to do is take them off, turn inside out, fold neatly and stow them away in your locker. Then next liberty take them out, brush them off and they look just like...
...think] every week that next week will not be quite so hectic," said Harry Truman. "But the coming week is always just a little more hectic. This is one place where there is always a crisis just around the corner and I have to do something about it. ... We must face those things...
During the war, U.S. commodity exchanges had little to do. Unlike World War I, when skyrocketing wheat and corn prices made millionaires in the pit from morn till midafternoon, the U.S. government controlled the big buying. It set ceilings on all important commodities except rye, made the once hectic exchanges as quiet as country stores. But traders squirmed under this cosy arrangement...