Word: preparedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Upright Servant. But once he had seated himself, he assumed an air of bluff unconcern. He got out a prepared statement, fitted on a pair of thick-rimmed glasses, shot his cuffs, and, in eight minutes of manly recitation, denied that he had ever been anything but an upright...
"Cost What It Will." Organized labor was out to punish him for being the author of the Taft-Hartley Act and leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of...
Forty Percent? The big guns of the T.U.C., led by burly Chairman Sir William Lawther, wheeled up to support retrenchment. Trade union leaders prepared a report and a resolution which served up some bitter medicine for the rank & file (8,000,000 strong), who have been pressing for higher pay...
Philip was the youngest of the 26 people who had sv urn the Channel; his time was the second longest. Socialist Britain hailed Philip's feat of endurance as evidence that the welfare state was not softening Britain's youth. Ossett (pop. 15,000), Philip's home...
Which cause in San Marcos, or in the world, was most nearly right? What should an honest man do? Carlos was not prepared to judge; he was still thinking.