Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sailors on the Washington reported that "at least half" of their G.I. passengers had upchucked. Fiddles on the mess tables were useless-crockery, cutlery and food were dashed to the deck as the inclinometer showed a list of 31 degrees...
Cash and kudos have been traditional rewards of Britain's war leaders. Two months ago the Labor Government violated the cash-grant tradition (TIME, Nov. 12). But this week, in the longest New Year's Honors List in history (some 10,000 names), it toed the line by handing them their traditional victors' laurels...
...Stanley Mortimer Jr. and her clothes did it again-won the Best-Dressed Woman title for the second year running. Donors of the title: Manhattan's dressmakers, who sent some 150 hand-picked voters a list of past winners ("merely to refresh your mind") with the grave warning that the affair was "one which we try to conduct seriously...
...over to the Japs early in the war, switched back to the British with the tide. But once the Japs had surrendered, Aung San demanded immediate Burmese independence. Hoping to mollify him, Sir Reginald asked Aung San to suggest a few names for a new council. When Aung San listed eleven fervent nationalists, Sir Reginald rejected his list. Thereupon Aung San was elevated to a crest of Burmese popularity and excitement dangerous in a country still full of Japanese arms...
...Communist representation (one) in Chancellor Figl's 15-man Cabinet. But they insisted on using their veto power on the Control Council in a way that indicated Russia's long-range intention of watching closely Austria's internal politics. Austria would not be added to the list of Russian-dominated countries; neither would it be fully independent...