Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford model required some careful looking over. It was not so much a matter of principles as practicalities. U.S. workers in the end might not like the idea as much as their leaders thought they should...
...management, keeps such an example of the toy stuffer's art on sale. He bought two large specimens for $25 apiece. Bogart welcomed them jovially, handed one to Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live giraffe...
...After much controversy, the Political & Security Committee had decided in which order it would proceed with the business in hand: debate i) Greece's complaint against her Communist neighbors, 2) the Italian colonies, 3) Russia's proposal for a Big Five "peace pact," 4) Palestine, 5) Indonesia and 6) the report of the Security Council. The committee had just disposed of item No. i by passing the Greek issue on to a conciliation commission when it had to make room on its agenda for a new problem. The Chinese had placed a formal charge before the Assembly that...
There was much more. But in effect what Churchill had to say was that abundance does not come to a country that tries to have economic equality by fiat. If Britain wanted prosperity, let her vote the Conservatives back...
...lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without first asking the consent of the reigning monarch. For though Britons love ardor, they love order even more...