Word: oftens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solid Symbol. For West Pointer Clay, the four years in Germany had been full of trouble, full of achievement, frustration-and plenty of criticism from all sides. The French objected violently to his singleminded, often stubborn determination to put Germany on its feet economically. Germans of all parties considered him too sternly unyielding. The State Department, sometimes slow in spelling out policy, fumed over his penchant for making policy himself. There were constant wrangles with the EGA. A civilian investigating committee complained only last month that General Clay's administration had deliberately refused to break up two of Germany...
...keep quiet, don't push. Those words we shall never forget. They have served us well during this blockade.' "If ever there are monuments raised to commemorate democracy's victory in the battle of Berlin, there are plenty of heroes to adorn them. In their weary, often grumbling and fumbling way, it was Berlin's plain people who won the battle-the people who met in huge rallies to hurl their defiance from the shadow of the Red-flag-topped Brandenburger Tor, the people who turned out in bitter cold last December to vote a solid...
...show up. The British might have done better if, in addition to holding their fair, they had sent an army of hard-hitting salesmen to invade the U.S. Many fine old British industries, such as pottery and cutlery, which do a steady but limited trade with the U.S., often have no sales program; they merely wait for orders. Other enterprises send salesmen abroad who do not know their way around the U.S. market...
...meeting of the "International Council of Christian Churches." Whenever he could get startled reporters to listen, he fulminated that the leaders of the World Council "include radical pacifists and socialists . . . This assembly is going to serve Communist ends." On such occasions, the American Council's impressive-sounding name often wins attention...
...then Mrs. Thompson has commuted to Manhattan every day with her adman husband, John Beaton (twice-married Alice Thompson uses her first husband's name in business) from their ten-room farmhouse in Fairfield, Conn. At home, Mrs. Thompson does much of her work and at home she often finds out exactly what her readers want to hear about. Her daughter, Judy, is just...