Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jessup sent out for a chicken sandwich and a cup of coffee and relaxed. At least for the moment, the most immediately hazardous threat to world peace had been removed. In Paris, at the end of May, the U.S. would get a better idea of what the man on the other side of the open door was thinking, what was behind his "Hello...
...approved the treaty, should proceed to furnish arms to Britain and the Western European powers. Under the waspish questioning of Missouri's legalistic Senator Forrest Donnell, he admitted he could not compute the exact dollar cost of U.S. surplus arms to be supplied. But, he added: "They may well be worth a lot more to us in the hands of somebody else than in a storehouse over here...
...private dining room of Detroit's uptown Rackham building, U.A.W.'s scrappy, redheaded President Walter Reuther, his right arm still in a splint from a gunman's shotgun blast (TIME, May 3, 1948), battled to the last minute to force Ford to terms. As the walkout began, Reuther tried to tell newsmen what the fight was all about...
Lorelei Song. The Big Four had agreed to meet in Paris May 23 to consider "questions relating to Germany and the problems arising out of the situation in Berlin, including also questions of currency in Berlin." What lay behind this bland clause was clear. Russia wanted control of Germany. Having failed to get it through the Berlin blockade, Russia would try again, with different tactics, at the Paris conference...
Convention Chairman Konrad Adenauer insisted, for history's sake, that the constitution be adopted on that grim anniversary; he managed to have the final vote (53-to-12) taken five minutes before midnight on May...