Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Economist, assuming that the latter would be the case: "Hard facts, not the morals of the case or the goodness or badness of the Germans, are the compelling reasons why, in a settlement with Germany, it is absolutely necessary to go the way of moderation. It is only the moderate that will be enforced-not now, but in the 15 or 20 years' time when the fat and lazy habits of peacetime have returned...
...Corps moves along. Second we were impressed with the dull camera technique used, and third, we were impressed by the completely sterile plot that is supposed to carry this fragile vehicle. Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, and Ruth Hussey are starred, and besides some pretty fair acting by the latter, this picture has nothing to recommend...
Baseball is scheduled to start on an intramural basis the latter part of this week. Four games a week will be scheduled and the competition will be run on more or less the same basis as was the softball
...opportune time to strike at East Prussia. At week's end, young General Chernyakhovsky, who had paused on the border for a whole fortnight, slashed into the Suwalki triangle, which Germany annexed in 1939. Bagramian's drive toward Riga while Chernyakhovsky waited had probably cost the latter his chance to be first to the sea. Now Chernyakhovsky held in his grasp a greater honor: that of seeing his divisions the first to tread the earth of Germany...
...Verona last January, it was Caruso who had the job of executing Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, whom Hitler had condemned to death. Calmly, Caruso sent a bullet into the back of Cianos head as the latter sat astraddle a chair; cooly he fired a coup de grâce when Ciano's squirming spoiled the accuracy of the first...