Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real life, boarding the Mauretania en route to the Washington conference on the British dollar crisis, Ministers Bevin and Cripps tried to be less doleful. They linked arms and beamed for cameramen. Bevin remarked that they were on "one of the most important missions in history." Someone yelled from the dockside, "Bring us back some dollars!" Bevin said: "I would ask the public not to expect to find the solution in a moment." Sir Stafford smiled toothily at his colleague's statement. "Good," he applauded. "Well done...
...Balkans buzzed with ominous reports that Russia was massing troops on the Yugoslav border, Stalin's archfoe, Marshal Tito, was enjoying a quiet holiday at his island stronghold of Brioni, in the upper Adriatic. There he received LIFE Photographer John Phillips, who had covered Tito and his partisans during the war. Phillips cabled...
...found Tito standing in the study of his villa. His appearance had not altered since the first time I met him five years back, at a time when he was also fighting for his life. His surroundings were, however, vastly different. Heavy, highly polished furniture which looked both cosy and somewhat bourgeois had replaced the rough tables, chairs and field telephone which furnished his cave headquarters...
...made his white-streaked blond hair seem even lighter in color, but he did not look 57. His face was just as mobile as ever, and his harsh look would melt into a ready laugh as he used his hands to emphasize a point. He appeared to be enjoying life, and if he felt under any strain it was not apparent. He wore dazzling white flannel slacks and a pale blue sport shirt embroidered with the monogram...
...political dimout in St. Laurent's life began four years later when Louis' French Canadian father, Moïse, ran for the Quebec legislature as a Liberal and was beaten. Sorely disappointed, Moïse St. Laurent advised Louis to stay out of politics...