Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later, Vaughan stepped off the train in Washington's sweltering Union Station. He tried to duck, but newsmen cornered him. One reporter asked Vaughan who paid for the Guatemala vacation. Vaughan flushed, drew back to strike the questioner, then changed his mind. "What the hell business is it of yours?" roared Vaughan, ". . . it cost me $2,000 to take my family on this vacation . . . it's nobody's goddamned business but mine and you can quote...
...newsmen he said: "I do not see the world as darkly as many. People should not believe the politicians. I am optimistic about the fate of Europe, and America can help to save what it is possible to preserve of European civilization, principally by spiritual...
...Nails. In the hall, weary newsmen despaired when Claude, the beer and sandwich man, went home muttering "No one pays me to stay after 12." Even an OEEC official said: "The West can never agree without Russia. When Russia is present we have no trouble agreeing to stand together, but when Russia is away," he shrugged his shoulders, "look at this...
Many a shocked compatriot on shore remembered how these men had sailed away, in the days of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a similar purposeful spirit and disciplined jingoist chants. The official welcoming party-talkative bureaucrats, beaming Red Cross nurses, bustling newsmen-waited on a bare wooden dock in Maizuru harbor, with blue, cloud-flecked hills and stark rusted cranes of the former naval base as backdrop. The 2,000 lined up rigidly, listened stonily to the effusive greetings, responded with chilling precision. A close-cropped ex-army captain stepped stiffly forward. "Some of us," he barked, "have not seen...
...short, the representatives of Tass were not primarily newsmen; they were Soviet agents...