Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eton and Oxford man, Keynes represented the British Treasury at the Peace Conference in 1919. With prophetic foreboding he walked out on the Conference, wrote his scathing The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which made him famous overnight. He called Lloyd George a "Welsh witch," and Woodrow Wilson a "nonconformist minister . . . [whose] mind was slow and unadaptable." Most of what he predicted came true and people began calling him Cassandra...
...Station, at a time (1938-40) when Japan was sowing her wildest oats; this post turned Sir Percy's hair from black to grey in 18 months. Now he has a tactical problem which ought to turn any responsible Admiral's hair from grey to purest white overnight...
...would, in fact, take an effort more prodigious than the U.S. was materially prepared soon to make. Shipbuilding cannot be expanded overnight. The top estimate for U.S. 1941 production is 1,100,000 tons...
Better than words the attendance told a success story as suggestive as any in this generation's church history: the success story of a mission chapel that grew almost overnight to be the largest Lutheran church in the country; the success story of an ex-Ford-salesman whom everyone came to like and admire as truly...
...Overnight accommodations for Friday night, April 18, will be provided for all delegates who require them at the Hotel Taft. Tea and informal discussion late Saturday will conclude the program...