Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some Congressmen whose local districts would be hurt, but, mindful of the demands they had often made for economy, many a Congressman manfully choked and swallowed in silence. The services themselves were surprisingly philosophic. Said Under Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball: "We've had this coming a long time. The war is over...
...instead, from America's competitors if they can furnish them more cheaply). Sir Stafford Cripps was still reported stubbornly opposed to devaluation of the pound, but there was growing feeling in Britain that devaluation, while a severe and only incomplete measure, might be a good thing in the long...
...Retrenchment would not be accepted without a fight. The restive T.U.C. membership would argue long and harshly over their leaders' counsel. To a Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim and exaggerated rejoinder: "Four percent! If only it were 4%-it would be paradise. The ghastly truth is that Washington would be nearer the mark if it said...
...Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America's erstwhile No. 1 Communist Gerhart Eisler. When one of the delegates blurted out "Long live Stalin!", foreign guests and their Soviet friends applauded loud and long...
...west bank of the Rhine, bustled to prepare itself as the world's newest capital. One morning last week, a black limousine stopped in front of the gleaming white, ultra-modern Teachers' College which carpenters and masons were enlarging to hold the legislative houses of the long-awaited German Federal Republic. Out of the car stepped a tall, elderly man, in sober dark suit and high, starched collar. One or two of the workmen recognized him as he passed, and nodded gravely; he responded with a grin. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor-apparent of the Federal Republic...