Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switch. In a strong, confident voice, Witness Philbrick matter-of-factly explained something that he and the Government had hidden well. "During the entire nine years of my activities," he said, "I have been continuously in touch with the FBI." The Government had reversed, with spectacular success, the old Red tactic of infiltration...
After that, hour after hour, day after day, men hunted in the wreckage for bodies. Effingham's business all but ceased. At the morgue, men & women moved with a stunned matter-of-factness-one woman, looking for her baby, stared at a small, charred body and said, "No, he was smaller" in the same tone she might have used if she were shopping. The funerals went on for days...
Communists at Home. It was nine months since Tito had been formally declared a heretic by Moscow for refusing to let Russia exploit his country's economy, to let Russian secret police spy on his own secret police. The world had largely believed that it would be a matter of weeks before Tito recanted or was liquidated. Last week, Tito was still in full control of his party, his army and his police force...
...decartelization . . . displaced persons and refugees . . . protection, prestige and security of the occupying forces . . . foreign affairs . . . foreign trade and exchange . . ." In these fields, the three-power agreement provides, on French insistence, that any high commissioner can exercise a veto. The high commissioners may also take a hand in any other matter if they consider it "essential to security or to preserve democratic government in Germany...
...tough, cockney-flavored municipal government, Oxford-accented Fabians had fought and won their first battles. Labor's political machine, reaching into all of London's slums, docks and factory districts, boosted to power such Socialists as Clement Attlee, Herbert Morrison, and Lewis Silkin. For 15 years, no matter who controlled the majorities in Parliament, the Labor Party controlled the London County Council...