Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While he waited for company from Capitol Hill, the President put in a busy week, full of official comings & goings. Winston Churchill arrived for the full brandy-and-cigar treatment at a formal presidential dinner in Blair House (see The Nation). There was a little dinner for outgoing Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and, later, a surprise ceremony to give Jim the Distinguished Service Medal. Incoming Secretary Louis Johnson was eager to take over, so the transfer was moved ahead four days, and early this week he was publicly installed at the Pentagon in the biggest swearing-in ceremony...
...story had a terrible and familiar ring. Her sister and her own husband were killed by the Nazis; her brother-in-law disappeared into the Russian army. Ava was sent to the concentration camp at Lemberg, put to sorting the clothing of surplus human beings eliminated by the Germans. Out of one heap came her mother's garments and Ava knew that she was dead. One morning Ava put on a dead man's suit, walked out of the camp with a construction gang and escaped...
...Herman, "Doc" and Freddie, the baby of the family. He never killed anyone, but that wasn't because his mother Kate Barker didn't teach him well. It was just that the Federals got him first-in 1921, for a mail stickup in Baxter Springs, Kans. They put him away in Leavenworth for 25 years...
...neutralization" of Germany between East and West, evacuation of all occupation armies and a 50-year trade pact with Soviet Russia. No taint of Communist sympathy motivates Hausleiter & friends; they are German nationalists who believe that they can make Germany strong by making a deal with Russia. They put the smile on Max Reimann's face. They are bringing Karl Radek...
...gendarmes took the two prisoners down to the church courtyard, where some 200 glowering men of the district had gathered to defy the revenuers. The prisoners were put into one of the police cars, which cruised about until two harassed men in city clothes stepped from a doorway. "We had hardly begun asking around about alcohol," said one of the revenuers, "when the bell sounded." In the end the revenuers got nothing and the bell-ringing prisoners were freed, after a long and fatherly lecture from Lieut. Leroux...