Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Fight. Enraged at this disturbance, Bummy roared, "Leave the guy alone!" When the gunmen showed no signs of following his advice he seized the nearest by a coat lapel, shoved him into position, then knocked him clear out of the joint with a murderous left. Unnerved, the other holdup men backed out, shooting at point-blank range. Bummy dived after them, swinging wildly and roaring horrible epithets. Bullets hit him in the spine, the lungs, the right arm. He kept swinging his left. He was outside, running for his automobile to give further chase, before he finally fell dead...
...final form was still uncertain. Both the Senate and the House had made changes that galled the President (e.g., the Senate wanted to exempt the Maritime Commission from reorganization; the House wanted to exempt the Veterans Administration). Now the bill would have to go back to a joint conference for further chewing...
...August 9-11. At the Atlantic Conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were confronted with the fact that Japanese troops had moved into French Indo-China, were massing on the Thailand border, that bellicose Japanese spokesmen were complaining of "encirclement" by the U.S., Britain and China. Churchill urged a joint warning to the Japs, wanted Roosevelt to declare that further Jap aggression would force the U.S. to take counter-measures "even though these might lead to war." The President agreed to the joint warning, boggled at the harsh Churchill phraseology...
From London Churchill cabled with typical British understatement: "What about Chiang Kaishek? Is he not having a very thin diet? ... If [the Chinese] collapse our joint dangers would enormously increase...
...democratic Uruguay proposed a radical change in Latin American policy. Foreign Minister Dr. Alberto Rodriguez Larreta suggested that the Americas drastically modify the dearest of all hemispheric principles: non-intervention by any one nation or group of nations in the domestic affairs of any American country. Instead, he advocated joint intervention against any nation which violates "the elementary rights of man and of the citizens." The Uruguayans had good reason to fear violators of democratic rights. Across the Rio de la Plata, the hard-booted Argentine colonels tramped and threatened...