Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Implication. Urged on by a radiogram from MacArthur, the commission closed the trial a little more than a month after it began. By neat timing, they handed down their verdict on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. They found Yamashita guilty as charged, sentenced him to hang.
Prize Packages. There were other passengers on Suzanne's plane, whose plans and hopes for the future were inevitably and inextricably intertwined with those of the earthbound: dapper, 67-year-old Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the famed portraitist son of an even more famed illustrator father (Filles et Garcons...
The Daily Mail dusted off a costume quote: "The country should say to [the government] as Cromwell said to the Long Parliament: 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, Go!'" The Times: "Mr. Attlee has to ask...
Moments of Glee. Opening debate in the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Cripps made yet another of his austerity speeches. "We can draw no more," he said gloomily, "from our already attenuated reserves." Dollar imports of food and tobacco would be cut still further-in fact, Sir Stafford made it...
Over the Fence? Attlee stuck doggedly to his decision not to hold an election this year. A straw poll recently conducted by Labor's Transport House had indicated that if the election were held now, Labor would get a majority of not more than 40 seats in the House...