Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's Soviet-occupied zone, one morning last week, a Dr. Becker settled himself at his big desk to open his mail. On top of the pile was a blank sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...
With that, San Francisco split wide open. An avalanche of letters rolled into the offices of the warring boards, almost all critical of the War Memorial board. For once, all four major San Francisco daily papers were editorially agreed. "When her own government has not seen fit to accuse her," cried Hearst's Examiner, "is it not presumptuous-and intolerant to the last degree-for persons in far-off San Francisco ... to keep pressing charges ... on nonlegalistic, hearsay evidence...
...suffers from "a slight guilt complex." But, by and large, this is hot, strong stuff, and not since Elinor Glyn and Ethel M. Dell has a writer put in her thumb and pulled out the sort of plum this pie is full of (e.g., "He had cut her open with a sword, but she was too proud to let him see the bleeding...
Past performance meant nothing. Mike Ferentz, the Long Beach (Calif.) bartender who won last year's championship, got knocked out in the first round. Reporters, who set up press headquarters in the ladies' locker room, were soon calling the tournament "anybody's open...
...congressional temper flared. For Hagerty, as the RFC's Boston manager, had recommended the $9,000,000 loan (later cut to $6,000,000) that enabled Waltham to reorganize. A Senate committee began digging into the RFC's records, found that the RFC had been an open door to high-salaried jobs in other companies which it had bailed out. In 4½-years, 20 RFC employees had joined companies that were in debt to the RFC. Like Hagerty, many of them had recommended loans for their future employers. Examples of other shifts...