Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This generous outburst, a credit to British decency, swept Bevin and others of like mind into one historical error. When Bevin said of the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs that they "had lived together in perfect harmony until Hitler's stooges and agents broke up their democratic state," he was falling back on the old, dubious view that Hitler's' New Order had been the work of only a few Nazi gangsters. The 3,000,000 Sudeten Germans, now joining Europe's miserable displaced millions, had risen in a mass to betray the Czechs...
...Army's offensive, but still it had to improvise a defense. Secretary Forrestal conferred time & again, sometimes until far into the night, with the top brass in his department-Admirals King and Edwards, Home and Mitscher-and was still working feverishly at week's end to perfect a line which would fend off the Army without offending the public...
...that the war is over?" . . . Mother No. 1 should be among the most enthusiastic supporters of a peacetime draft law. Mother No. 2 should thank God that her little darling was born too late to fight in this war, and is only being asked to serve now, in perfect safety, to relieve a man who has, perhaps, already gone through months, or years, of hell...
...real thing. But as a piece of melodramatic, patriotic entertainment it has its points. The producer's feminine touch can be seen in some intricately propped interiors and a very pretty sequence of a rain-drenched funeral procession. Gracie Fields' performance as the English spinster is near perfect. And Connie Bennett herself, who has lost nothing of her tough, wiry glamor with the years, gives fine style and energy to the international-smart-set aspects of her role. But she is unable to show deep emotion, physical suffering, or simple embarrassment...
Something had also happened to Jahco's perfect friendship with A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, with which Bill Jack had long boasted a closed-shop contract. The trouble had started when union bigwigs, who looked sourly on Jahco's stock-selling plan, warned associates against buying. Associates went right on buying anyway, rubbed it into wary union officials by assigning their voting rights to Bill Jack and Vice President Ralph Heintz as trustees. When the V-J layoffs started, the squabble broke out again, this time over veteran seniority provisions. Result: Jahco must appear...