Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress. But last week the U.S. had the word of Secretary of State Marshall that Congress alone could give Western Europe the stopgap help it needs "to meet the immediate threat of intolerable hunger and cold." The situation, said George Marshall, requires "urgent consideration." This was taken to mean: a special session some time in November, at the latest...
...both hope and plan to return to the four year system at the end of this season. This would mean that the winner of the Sophomore competition would become the Assistant Varsity manager for his Junior year and would automatically become the Varsity manager during his Senior year...
...their own exhibit items. They were nice kids, sincere, enthusiastic. If they did not represent our country as many of us believe it should be represented, blame the Government. . . . We failed completely to grasp the opportunity to show 30,000 serious boys & girls what the Government of America can mean to them...
Reluctantly but overwhelmingly, T.U.C. approved Government power to fine or imprison workers who refused to take jobs the Government directed them to take. Labor Minister George Isaacs told delegates apologetically that it would be only "limited direction." "What do you mean . . . ?" yelled delegates. Isaacs hedged: "I cannot discuss details...
Later, after blackened bodies had been taken in gunny sacks to an improvised morgue, numbed relatives listened to undertakers' assistants: "Does a heart-shaped locket mean anything to anyone? Does a very plain wedding ring worn on the right hand mean anything? Here is a red linen handkerchief with the words 'Bonnie Scotland' on it, and a ruby ring." By week's end the dead were counted at 31, including the special's engine crew...