Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...published works that about 60% of them have to their credit form an impressively long list of novels, plays, essays, poetry, and magazine pieces. Interestingly enough, their wives (82% of whom went to college) have done considerable writing, too: half of them are, or have been, writers, and 34% have had their work published...
Meanwhile, in Washington, the War Department sent up, and the Senate confirmed, a list of 349 officers for promotion (based on seniority) to the permanent rank of colonel. Among the names: James Alphonse Kilian. Then the Washington Post drew attention to the goings-on at the Lichfield trial. Embarrassed, Utah's Elbert Thomas got the Senate to call the list back. If the Army was embarrassed, it showed no sign...
...hatred of Communism. He knows Communism inside out, for he has fought it and crushed it within Transport House. Last week, when Soviet President Kalinin denounced Europe's "reactionary Socialists" and their false devotion to democracy, Bevin knew that Kalinin put his name at the top of the list. Bevin understands that the gap between Russia and the West is really unbridgeable so long as Russia defines democracy in terms of a single party, a single list of candidates, a secret police and a controlled press. He knows that the West's brand of freedom is no longer...
...districts, covering a sixth of the globe, voters registered unmarked papers to approve the official list, marked papers to disapprove. Only if half the electors scratched a candidate's name from the ballot paper could the Communist ticket lose. It did not lose. Stalin himself got a 100% vote in his own Moscow precinct...
Speculation. This answer set newsmen's ears flapping. Was the Generalissimo hinting at retirement? No one thought it likely, but if he did not run for President, who might? A list of the possibilities showed how the Generalissimo still stood head & shoulders above all his rivals and colleagues in political stature...