Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus a fissure widened between the men who cannot escape the Party label and those who stand ready to assert that they merely endured it. For the former the cue now was: hang on and hope for a stalemate; for the latter: get this war over with as quickly as possible-and make sure the English-speaking armies march into Berlin first...
Hague was so flabbergasted that he could only mutter through his jowls: "I don't know anything about it." Grumbled bat-eared Michael J. Quill, head of the Transportation Workers Union, himself often tagged with a Red label: "Hague is a bum and always was a bum, and I don't think you can whitewash him just because he says he supports...
...Fish, glaring around him, observed: "I want honest labeling of our parties . . . in 1944," and sat down. This was a big order, for although many have tried, no one has yet even been able to think of an exact label for Mr. Fish...
Unhappy Valleys. On eight of eleven successive nights in the new year, the R.A.F. had bashed the Ruhr, plowing through the strongest anti-aircraft defenses the world has ever seen. In "Happy Valley," the R.A.F.'s ironic label for the industrial heart of the Reich, few bombs had been wasted, for the factories and foundries lie cheek by jowl for miles. And on their edges are the windowless homes of the Ruhr workers. Their nights were shattered, their work was impaired even when they went back to jobs in plants that had escaped blockbusters and incendiaries...
...Culbertson "peace plan" is, however, anything but radical. Stripped of the tinsel, it boils down to American domination of the globe, with a "take-it-or-leave-it" label attached. Under this chart of the future, the United States will control twenty percent of the world's military power, with fifteen percent each going to the whole British Empire and Soviet Russia. France, Germany, Italy, and China would get two percent each. Just how this will be achieved without another war is left completely unexplained...