Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes streaked across the sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail...
Brookwood, England hailed the battle-scarred winners of a father & son golf tournament, Field Marshal Earl Wavell, who lost his left eye in World War I and his son, Major Viscount Keren, who lost his left arm in Africa...
...Gothic tower of the Tribune. Red and black letters on their white canvas placards told the now familiar story: "On Strike Against the Chicago Tribune." But after 17 months, the printers seemed as far as ever from winning the strike against the Trib and Chicago's four other major dailies...
...Abbot does not hold that earthly temperature changes are directly geared to these solar variations. But he is sure that both follow the same cycle. This, says he, "is so strikingly obvious . . . that no one could doubt that it is both real and a major element in weather." To prove his point, he made a forecast at the beginning of 1948. His prediction named the 55 dates on which his solar cycles would begin, and stated that on those days the temperature in Washington would probably be below normal. In between those days, the temperature would rise by an average...
...these words, the man who made British determination plain to the world strikes the major theme of the second volume of his World War II memoirs. The title, Their Finest Hour, means just what it suggests-an hour in which the shames and hesitancies of the British past have been whipped out of sight, and the triumphs and tragedies of later years are still unforeseeable. Only the absorbing, solitary hour of the British crisis is present-the decisive hour in which the past must be redeemed and the future secured. It was to this decisive moment that Churchill called upon...