Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took two hours to count the $8,000 in the presence of bank officials, and when this process was over, the police squad found that the suspect had disappeared...
...began with Yalta: "The solution arrived at . . . was looked upon by His Majesty's Government at that time as a sensible compromise . . . [but] the Communist process goes ruthlessly on. . . . You have only to look at your maps. . . ." With a sort of elephantine perversity, Bevin droned over the old ground of Greece, Trieste and Lake Success. His audience fidgeted. He said: " [The] policy on the part of the Soviet Union [is] to use every means in their power to get Communist control in Eastern Europe and . . . in the West as well." What did the British government propose...
...that has overtaken Britons in the last year has been the growing awareness that they are Europeans, no longer islanded in glorious and superior detachment. Recognition of Russia as Britain's enemy and European Communism as the enemy's instrument has proceeded apace for many months; the process is now well nigh complete...
...Britain's bright young men, reported back (in This Week magazine) after a look at Scandinavia. He found the Danes "the most exhilarating people in Europe. . . ." On the Swedes: "They believe very firmly in their own sanity." The sight of Norwegian statuary bearing no evidence of "any intellectual process or spiritual aspirations" moved him to wonder "what hope there was for the people who had made...
...feed the growing empire, Lyons built a 70-acre plant near London to process coffee, tea, custard powder, chocolate. Lyons, which now employs some 30,000 people, sells an average of 770,000 meals and 680,000 cups of tea and coffee a day, turns out 2,000,000 servings of ice cream, nearly 500,000 cakes. At the end of its last fiscal year, it listed total assets of ?19,414,076, reported a net profit for the year...