Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall went on the air to expand that theme. After painstakingly reviewing the tedious hours of conference haggling, he said: "Despite the disagreements . . . and the difficulties encountered, possibly greater progress towards final settlement was made than is realized. The critical differences were for the first time brought into the light and now stand clearly defined so that future negotiations can start with a knowledge of exactly what the issues are that must be settled...
Down the Red Flag. March 1944 is the beginning of Togliatti's experiment in "respectable" revolution. Mussolini's regime is dead, and the Italian people squirm to the light-dazed, vaguely jubilant, cheering the U.S. as liberator. This is a unique opportunity for the West to establish a healthy Italian democracy. But the Communists see an opportunity, too. Many of them want to start a revolution immediately. Under the heavy March rains, Italy's mud seems like the very clay of history...
...climax of this sweetness-&-light campaign conies when "Father Palmiro" and his Communist Curates vote for the reaffirmation of the Lateran Pact (TIME, April 7), thus depriving the Christian Democrats of their most effective antiCommunist weapon-the charge that the Communists fight Christianity. Says a Communist observer: "You might say that Togliatti decided for the moment to dispense with the crude sickle in favor of the more delicate rapier. And instead of the hammer, we find Terracini's parliamentary gavel more effective...
While the heavies are engaged at Annapolis, Hert Haines will send his 150. pound boats against the Tech light-weights and Tabor Academy in a late-afternoon informal race here, starting on the Charles River Basin at about 4:30 o'clock...
Finding needles in the proverbial hay-stack would be light work for the dozen girls who run the Alumni Records Office in Widener, whose day-to-day tasks involve files of more than 88,000 living Harvard men and many generations of deceased graduates...